Dolly Parton Quotes

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Dolly Parton

Profession : Singer

Birth : January 19, 1946

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

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Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

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I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

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A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

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If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

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I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

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Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

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I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

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When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

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I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

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The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

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I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

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I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

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Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

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My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

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The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

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I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

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When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

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I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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