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It Was Never A Marketing Tool. People Say That, But I Dress This Way For The Same Reasons I Did When I First Started Doing It. It Still Comes From A Serious Place Inside Of Me. I Get Up In The Morning, And I Think I Just Look Better A Certain Way I Do My Makeup. I Want To Shine, I Want To Glitter. I'm Not Getting Up Thinking, "oh, This'll Get 'em." And I'm Not Doing It To Make A Statement. I'm Just Doing It To Look Like Dolly - The Dolly That I Know And The Dolly That You Know.

-Dolly Parton

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It Was Never A Marketing Tool. People Say That, But I Dress This Way For The Same Reasons I Did When I First Started Doing It. It Still Comes From A Serious Place Inside Of Me. I Get Up In The Morning, And I Think I Just Look Better A Certain Way I Do My Makeup. I Want To Shine, I Want To Glitter. I'm Not Getting Up Thinking, "oh, This'll Get 'em." And I'm Not Doing It To Make A Statement. I'm Just Doing It To Look Like Dolly - The Dolly That I Know And The Dolly That You Know.

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