Dolly Parton Quotes

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Dolly Parton

Profession : Singer

Birth : January 19, 1946

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

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My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

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I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

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I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.

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God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

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That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!

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You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

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I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

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My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

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'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

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I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

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Everybody has a purpose.

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Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

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I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

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I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

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I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

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I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

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