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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.

-Dolly Parton

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I Wanted To Write

Dolly Parton

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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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We Could Afford The Price Of Peace. Love Is All It Costs.

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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.

I Look Like A Woman, But I Think Like A Man.

I Always Love Working With Children. I Never Had Children Of My Own. God Has His Purposes. God Didn't Let Me Have Children So Everybody's Children Could Be Mine. That's Kind Of How I'm Looking At It.

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People Tend To Fear What They Do Not Know, And What They Fear They Dislike.

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There's A Scripture That Says, 'a Merry Heart Doeth Good Like Medicine.' I Think That's True, Too.

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