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If I Had To Give Up Performing, It Wouldn't Bother Me Too Much. But I Couldn't Live Without My Writing. I Put All My Feelings, My Very Soul, Into My Writing. I Tell The World In My Songs Things I Wouldn't Even Tell My Husband.

-Dolly Parton

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Dolly Parton

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If I Had To Give Up Performing, It Wouldn't Bother Me Too Much. But I Couldn't Live Without My Writing. I Put All My Feelings, My Very Soul, Into My Writing. I Tell The World In My Songs Things I Wouldn't Even Tell My Husband.

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If I Have One More Facelift I'll Have A Beard!

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Dreams Are Of No Value If They Don't Have Wings And Feet.

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I'm A Fool To Keep Staying, When You've Made Hurting Me Such An Art.

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People Just Overshoot Trying To Find God. They're Going Outside And Trying Everything. They Don't Realize That It's Right Inside Themselves.

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All These Fine Christian-type People That Seem To Think They Know What God Wants For All Of Us, That's Certainly More Of A Sin Then Anything They Would Claim About Us. To Judge People Is One Of The Greatest Sins.

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 Not Like A Real Person. I Love Being Artificial. I Think There's A Little Magic In The Fact That I'm So Totally Real, But Look So Artificial At The Same Time.

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I'm Not Sixty, I'm "sexty.

The Freewill You Have Given, We Have Made A Mockery Of.

It's Not Easy Being Young. It's Hard To Know What To Do.

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If I Had To Give Up Performing, It Wouldn't Bother Me Too Much. But I Couldn't Live Without My Writing. I Put All My Feelings, My Very Soul, Into My Writing. I Tell The World In My Songs Things I Wouldn't Even Tell My Husband.

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. We Will Always Remember Her Fondly.

Yeah I Flirt, I'm Not Blind And I'm Not Dead!.

It's Great At This Stage In My Life To Still Be In The Running, That People Appreciate You.

I Figure If I Keep My Health, I Have No Intention Of Retiring. I Love To Work. I Want To Be Like Bob Hope. I Want To Keep On Going Out And Doing What I Love To Do. Of Course, I'm No Bob Hope, But I Mean That Feeling That You Never Are Old And Have Things To Offer And Can Be Useful To Somebody. I Always Want To Be Useful, I Have No Intentions Of Retiring Unless I Should Get Sick Or Something Should Happen To My Husband. Other Than That I'm Going To Work Until I Fall Over.

There's Been A Lot Of Talk About Jack White Wanting To Work With Me, And I've Always Admired Him, And Of Course, He Lives In Nashville, Too.

I Don't Have Time To Stand Around And Listen To An 11-minute Song.

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I Think Everyone Should Be With Who They Love.

I Look Just Like The Girls Next Door... If You Happen To Live Next Door To An Amusement Park.

I'm A Show-off Basically... Always Have Been.

I Do Have A Lot Of Gays In My Family Now, But Some Will Never Come Out.

When I Was With Andy Warhol, I Thought, 'god, His Wig Looks Cheaper Than Mine!'

If There's A Heaven, I Hope To Hell I Go!

My Husband Said 'show Me Your Boobs' And I Had To Pull Up My Skirt... So It Was Time To Get Them Done!

Sometimes I Start With A Great Title Or Idea, Sometimes A Great Melody Will Run Through My Mind; But The Higher Percentage Of The Time, The Words And Music Pretty Much Come At The Same Time.

I Know When Something Ain't Right, And I Know Exactly What I Will Or Won't Tolerate.

I Will Never Retire Unless I Have To.

You Can Do Anything You Want To Do As Long As You Keep A Good Attitude And Keep Working At It. But The Second You Give Up, You’re Screwed.

God Made Me The Way That I Am And It’s My Business To Be True To That.

I'm Gonna Be Making Records Anyway, Even If I Had To Sell 'em Out Of The Trunk Of My Car. I'm That Kind Of Musician And Singer.

Leave Something Good In Every Day.

I'm On A Seafood Diet - I See Food, I Eat It.

I Couldn't Have Children, I Tried To For Years. I've Never Been Pregnant In My Life. When I Was A Girl And Fooling Around I Was Scared To Death I'd Get Pregnant, And Then When I Got Married And Wanted To Have Children I Couldn't Have Any. But I Don't Miss It. I Did For Awhile, But I Realize That I Am Everybody's Mother.

Money Ain't Everything.

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