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You Can't Just Will Your Dreams To Come True. You Have To Work Hard. You Have To Give 'em Wings, Arms, Legs...whatever It Takes To Make Your Dreams Come True.

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You Can't Just Will

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You Can't Just Will Your Dreams To Come True. You Have To Work Hard. You Have To Give 'em Wings, Arms, Legs...whatever It Takes To Make Your Dreams Come True.

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I've Been Very Fortunate.

They Say Somebody's 'street Smart.' I Feel Like, If I Got Intelligence, It's Just A Country Smart.

Don't Judge Me By The Cover, 'cause I'm A Real Good Book.

As A Songwriter, You're Allowed To Write Anything, And As A Person, I Am All Colors In The Rainbow. I've Been Through Everything, You Know, So I Can Write A Positive Song Like 'better Get To Livin'' Because That's My Attitude. But That Doesn't Mean I'm Happy All The Time. You Can't Be A Deep And Serious Songwriter Without Feelings. You Kinda Have To Live With Your Feelings Out On Your Sleeve And Get Hurt More Than Most People. The Fear I Might Get Hurt Means I Might Not Be Able To Write Another Song.

You Can Be Rich In Spirit, Kindness, Love And All Those Things That You Can't Put A Dollar Sign On.

I Wake Up With New Dreams Every Day. So The More I Can Do To Channel That Into Things That I Love To Create Is Healthier For Me And Probably For Everybody Around Me. And The Older I Get, The Earlier I Get Up. The Second My Feet Hit The Floor, I'm Awake. I'm Like Hurry, Hurry. I Just Love Life. And I Feel Like We Ain't Got But A Certain Amount Of Time Anyway. I Want To Make The Most Of All Of It.

I Know Some Of The Best Dolly Parton Jokes. I Made 'em Up Myself.

I've Used My Femininity And My Sexuality As A Weapon And A Tool... But That's Just Natural.

My Songs Are Like My Children - I Expect Them To Support Me When I'm Old.

I've Copyrighted 3,000 Songs.

The Tits And The Hair And The Personality Helped Build The Whole Dolly Deal, But It Was My Music That Brought Me Out Of The Smokey Mountains.

I Just Love Life. I Love People. I Love To Write, That's My Gift. I Love To Sing. I Have A Good Attitude. I Like To Think I Shine From The Inside.

No, I Can't Do Rap Music...

I Write A Little Something Every Day, Even Though I Don't Write A Song [every Day]. Everything Inspires Me. I'll Come Up With A Line, Or Somebody Will Say Something That Will Trigger Something.

I Do Have A Natural Sense For Business, Which I Think I Get From My Dad.

I Don't Have Maids Or Servants, And My Husband And I Love Waking Up Early And Going To The 24-hour Supermarket When There Is Nobody Else There.

Sometimes, You See Folks Who Have A Negative View Of Dreamers - People Who Sit Around All Day On Their Hindquarters And Do Absolutely Nothing. These Folks Aren't Dreamers - They Are Just Lazy. To Me, Dreaming Is Just Part Of Being Alive, Inspired, And Curious About The World.

I Never Could Get My Hair To Do What I Wanted It To Do, So I Started Wearing The Wigs. It All Came From A Very Serious Place. I Wanted To Look A Certain Way.

Find Out Who You Are And Do It On Purpose.

Believe It Or Not, I Was Just Given An Honorary Doctorate Degree From The University Of Tennessee.

Jump Out Of Bed And I Stumble To The Kitchen, Pour Myself A Cup Of Ambition And Yawn And Stretch And Try To Come Alive.

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

A Lot Of People Don't Realise I Came Out Of The Smoky Mountains With A Load Of Songs.

When I Sit Back In My Rocking Chair Someday, I Want To Be Able To Say I've Done It All.

I Have A Good Attitude. And I Was Born With A Happy Heart. I'm Always Looking For Things To Be Better.

Storms Make Trees Take Deeper Roots.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All Of Them Are Different Styles, But Those Are The Songs That Make The Times. They're The Songs That Last Through Time.

The World Is My Stage. I Try To Be Good At It, Whatever Part I'm Playing - Even In My Daily Life Or When The Spotlight Hits Me On The Stage To Perform - I Gotta Be Alive Every Second In This World. With Or Without The Applause!

Hello God, If We Are Still On Speaking Terms, Can You Help Me?

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

I Always Loved Books. I Don't Remember Learning To Read, It Was Just Something I Always Did. I Was Hungry For Knowledge, I Guess, And Information; I Was A Curious Kid. I Still Am.

I Am Not Gay, But If I Were, I Would Be The First One Running Out Of The Closet.

I Never Have Changed In My Taste, And The Things That I Love, And The Way That I Act, And All That. I Never Wanted To Change, I Just Wanted To Be Successful, And Be Able To Do More Things For More People, And For Myself As Well.

I'll Oil Wells Love You. I'll Oil Wells Care. I'll Oil Wells Need You. I Want You Oil Wells Dear.

I Don't Keep Up With A Lot Of Trends. I've Never Been A Fashion Horse. I'm So Busy Writing My Songs, Trying To Maintain My Business, And All The New Things That Come Along. I Stay Working All The Time.

You Gotta Keep Trying To Find Your Niche And Trying To Fit Into Whatever Slot That's Left For You Or To Make One Of Your Own.

Mine Is Only One Of The Millions Of Hearts Broken Over The Death Of Whitney Houston. I Will Always Be Grateful And In Awe Of The Wonderful Performance She Did On My Song And I Can Truly Say From The Bottom Of My Heart, 'whitney, I Will Always Love You. You Will Be Missed.'

I Don't Listen To Music For Fun. I Ain't Got Enough Time For Fun! I'm Always Busy Writing My Own Music. I Don't Try To Compete Or See What Other People Are Doing.

If I Can Get My Dress On, My Weight Is Under Control.

Every Seven Years, I Sit Down And Make A Whole New Plan.

I Don't Have Anything To Say About Other People's Art And Their Work.

Tell Me I Have To Be Somewhere, And I'll Be There 20 Minutes Early And Stay There Longer Than Anybody Else. You Hold Up A Lot Of People If You're Not On Time.

I Make Jokes About It, But It's The Truth That I Kind Of Patterned My Look After The Town Tramp. I Didn't Know What She Was, Just This Woman Who Was Blond And Piled Her Hair Up, Wore High Heels And Tight Skirts, And, Boy, She Was The Prettiest Thing I'd Ever Seen. Momma Used To Say, "aw, She's Just Trash," And I Thought, That's What I Want To Be When I Grow Up. Trash.

If We Can't Be True To Ourselves, What Can We Be True To?

There Are Some People Who Physically Are Not Beautiful. But The Way They Are, The Way They Treat People, They Become Beautiful, And You Forget All About [their Looks].

I Hope Life Treats You Kind, And I Hope You Have All That You Ever Dreamed Of, And I Wish You Joy And Happiness. But Above All Of This, I Wish You Love.

A Lot Of My Heartbreak Songs Are Inspired By Things My Sisters Are Going Through, Or Friends.

I Love Writing Every Song I Can Like A Little Mini Movie. I Like To Have A Character, Or Some Characters, And Really Paint A Picture With The Song.

I'm A Proud Person. I'm Not Vain. I Look At It Like It Is. If You've Got The Money And You're Going To Be Out There, You Owe It To People Not To Look Like A Dog If You Can Help It.

Of Course, 'i Will Always Love You' Is The Biggest Song So Far In My Career. I'm Famous For Several, But That One Has Been Recorded By More People And Made Me More Money, I Think, Than All Of Them. But That Song Did Come From A True And Deep Place In My Heart.

My Aunt In Knoxville Would Bring Newspapers Up, Which We Used For Toilet Paper. Before We Used It, We'd Look At The Pictures.

I'm Not Going To Limit Myself Just Because People Won't Accept The Fact That I Can Do Something Else.

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.

There Are Some Loony People In This World!

I Love Watching Keep-fit Videos While Munching Chocolate Chip Cookies.

It Took Me Years To Eat A Lot Of Shellfish. I Was Probably 20 Years Old Before I Had Even Seen A Shrimp Cocktail. I Like Oysters, But Fried.

It Seems Like The More I Give The More I Get, And That Is The Way It Is Supposed To Go In Life.

The Way I See It, If You Want The Rainbow, You Gotta Put Up With The Rain. When I'm Inspired, I Get Excited Because I Can't Wait To See What I'll Come Up With Next. Find Out Who You Are And Do It On Purpose.

I've Never Let A Rhinestone Go Unturned

I Don't Like To Get Involved In Things That I Am Not Familiar With. I'm Kind Of A Hands-on Type Of Person.

My Music Is So Mine, It's Hard To Turn It Over To Someone Else. I Have To Be Really Involved In The Production. It's Like Someone Else Taking Care Of Your Kids - If They Don't Treat Them Well, You're Going To Be Pissed Off. I'm Actually Co-producing [backwoods] With My Guitar Player Of 20 Years, Kent Wells. We Make A Good Combination... I Think We're Going To Have A Real Good Record.

In Fact, I Bought Our First Family Television With My Own Money, Putting It On Credit And Then Paying It Off Every Week.

I Don't Think Of Myself As A Feminist, But If Someone Calls Me A Feminist Icon, That's Fine. I've Always Stood Up For Women And Myself In General. I Have A Great Love And Respect, Because I Have Had Beautiful Sisters, Aunts And My Grandmas, But I Love Men. I Totally Understand The Nature Of Men.

The Secret To A Long Marriage Is To Stay Gone.

My First Job Was Singing On The Cas Walker Radio Show In Knoxville, Tennessee. I Was About 10 Years Old And I Thought It Was Big Time.

After You Reach A Certain Age, They Think You’re Over. Well, I Will Never Be Over. I’ll Be Making Records If I Have To Sell Them Out Of The Trunk Of My Car. I’ve Done That In My Past, And I’d Do It Again.

Oh, I Can Spot A Phoney A Mile Away.

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All My Momma's People Were Very Musical. My Grandpa, Who Was The Pentecostal Minister, He Was A Great Musician. He Played The Fiddle, He Played The Piano.

I Think My Life Actually Changed At 40. That's When You Realize You Can't Ride The Fence Anymore. You Either Have To Get On One Side Or The Other. I Think Some Of My Best Years Were Between 40 And 50: I Got My Priorities Straight And Life Is Good To Me Now. It's Only Other People Who Say, "god, She's 50 Years Old!" As If I'm Over The Hill. I Feel Like I Just Started.

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

Trying Everything

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I've Struggled Enough In My Life To Be Appreciated And Understood. I've Had To Go Against All Kinds Of People Through The Years Just To Be Myself. I Think Everybody Should Be Allowed To Be Who They Are, And To Love Who They Love. I Don't Think We Should Be Judgmental. Lord, I've Got Enough Problems Of My Own To Pass Judgment On Somebody Else.

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

I Thank God For My Failures. Maybe Not At The Time But After Some Reflection. I Never Feel Like A Failure Just Because Something I Tried Has Failed.

I Can't Keep Somebody From Being A Star, And I Can't Make Somebody A Star, And Nobody Can.

God Has His Plans And His Reasons. Sometimes We Are Supposed To Go Through Things So That We Learn Lessons.

Wouldn't It Be Something If We Could Have Things We Love In Abudance Without Their Losing That Special Attraction The Want Of Them Held For Us.

I Think That I Know The Value Of A Dollar.

I Modelled My Looks On The Town Tramp.

I Always Ask God To Work Through Me And Let Me Be A Light Of Some Kind And Help In This World, So I Always Pray For That, And I Always Want To Do Good.

I'll Never Harden My Heart But I've Toughened The Muscles Around It.

I'm One Of Those People That If Its Something To Eat I'm Going To Eat The Whole Thing, If I'm Going To Be In Love I'm Going To Love You All The Way And If My Heart's Broken, It's Just Shattered All To Pieces.

Songwriting Is My Way Of Channeling My Feelings And My Thoughts. Not Just Mine, But The Things I See, The People I Care About. My Head Would Explode If I Didn't Get Some Of That Stuff Out.

I Bought All Those [fitness] Videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I Love To Sit And Eat Cookies And Watch 'em.

I'd Love To Develop And Star In My Own Children's Show, Write Children's Books, Do Children's Albums, Movies, Dvds, Etc.

If You're Feeling Low, Don't Despair. The Sun Has A Sinking Spell Every Night, But It Comes Back Up Every Morning.

I Have A Life Outside The Arenas.

I'm No Angel If That's What You Thought You Found. I Was Just The Victim Of A Man That Let Me Down.

I Got Kind Of Scared When I Thought They Wanted Me To Do Something... I Didn't Want To Be Naked On The Front Of A Magazine Unless Everybody Would Know It Was A Joke. I Wouldn't Want To Be Naked Even Then.

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.

I Don't Judge. I'm Not God. We're Supposed To Be Less Judgmental And Accept And Be Kind And Love One Another.

I Hated School. Even To This Day, When I See A School Bus It's Just Depressing To Me. The Poor Little Kids.

If You Like Good Ol' Fashion Southern Soul Food Then, Yes, I Am A Good Cook! My Specialty Is Chicken Dumplings And Poke Salad.

I'm Just A Friendly Person; That Runs In My Family.

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

One Of The Things I'm Real Proud Of Is I Just Made A Deal With 20th Century Fox, And I've Got My Own Production Company Now. I'm Developing Some Television And Movies For Other People Because I Have A Lot Of Fresh New Ideas. To Write Is What I Love The Most.

I Have To Not Harden My Heart, Because I Want To Stay Open To Feel Things.

You Can't Just Will Your Dreams To Come True. You Have To Work Hard. You Have To Give 'em Wings, Arms, Legs...whatever It Takes To Make Your Dreams Come True.

There's A Lot Of Rednecks In The Country Where I Grew Up.

I Want To Be Like One Of Those Little Fainting Goats That Get Scared And Then Just Fall Over. I Want To Go And Go And Then Drop Dead In The Middle Of Something I'm Loving To Do. And If That Doesn't Happen, If I Wind Up Sitting In A Wheelchair, At Least I'll Have My High Heels On.

I Think God Gave Us Talent Because He Screwed Up Our Hair

I Am A Seeker, A Poor, Sinful Creature, There Is No Weaker Than I.

You Are The Song Of Every Bird, You Are The Poet's Every Word, Every Artist's Picture, Every Writer's Play.

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

Being A Star Just Means That You Just Find Your Own Special Place And That You Shine Where You Are. To Me That's What Being A Star Means.

Children Have Always Responded To Me Because I Have That Cartoon-character Look.

When I Meet Someone, I Look At Their Eyes And Their Smile And Seek Out The Good First - It's Easy To Find When You're Looking For It. You Let A Person Shine With Their Own Light And Try To Connect It To Yours. As Soon As I Say Hello, I Go Right To That Light And I Don't Care Who You Are! I Know We're All Pieces Of The Same Thing - I Go For That Common Light Because I Know It's In All Of Us.

A Great Smile Is A Wonderful Asset, But A Good Heart Is Pure Gold.

Energy Begets Energy.

I'm Old Enough And Cranky Enough Now That If Someone Tried To Tell Me What To Do, I'd Tell Them Where To Put It.

The Music Does Bring Us Together And It's Cheaper Than Therapy!

I Never Know Tomorrow What I Might Be Doing. I Just Ask God To Lead Me And Show Me And Direct Me And Help Me And Support Me In It. So I Just Wait To Hear The Call.

If You Can Read, You Can Find Books On Anything You Want. You Can Self-educate Even If You Can't Afford To Go To School.

I'm Very Open With My Business Partners, Just Like I Am With My Husband.

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

Many Of My Friends Are Gay, Male And Female. I Don't Judge People. I Don't Care What People Do In Their Bedrooms And People Shouldn't Care What I Do In Mine.

I Love The Energy Of Children. It Makes Me Feel Young. I'm Just Drawn To Them. They're Like Magic To Me. And They're Drawn To Me, The Childlike Part Of Me That Never Did Grow Up.

I've Never Been A Feminist.

Music, I Suppose, Will Be The Thing That Sustains Me In The Time Of My Life When I Am Too Old For Sex And Not Quite Ready To Meet God. It Has Always Been An Essential Part Of Me.

I'll Bring My Grits When I Travel, Because I Get So Hungry On The Road.

If I Hadn't Been A Woman, I'd Be A Drag Queen For Sure. I Like All That Flair And I'd Be Dressing Up In Them High Heels And Putting On The Big Hair. I'd Be Like Ru Paul.

Find Out What You Are, Then Do It On Purpose

My Philosophy Is Simple: It's A Down-home, Common, Horse-sense Approach To Things.

As A Songwriter, You Respect And Appreciate The Writings Of Other People, And I Often Get Asked, Are There Songs Out There I Wish I'd Written? Yes. There's Many Of Them!

I've Never Been The Big Recording Star I'd Love To Be Some Day. I've Had Lots Of Hits Off And On Through The Years But I've Never Had The Success Of Other Artists - One Hit After Another Back-to-back-to-back And Big Hits, Where Every Song Is Going To Be Number One. I'm Not Greedy Or Nothing. I Just Want Everything. Is There Something Wrong With That?

Dollywood Is A Family Park, And All Families Are Welcome. We Do Have A Policy About Profanity Or Controversial Messages On Clothing Or Signs. It Is To Protect The Individual Wearing Or Carrying Them, As Well As To Keep Down Fights Or Problems By Those Opposed To It At The Park.

Laughter Through Tears Is My Favorite Emotion.

I'll Just Wait Right Here For You Cause I Know Your New Love Won't Last. I Wound Easy, But I Heal Fast.

Low Self Esteem

I Don't Trust Anyone Who Does Their Own Hair. I Don't Think It's Natural.

I Was Blessed To Have Family Members Who Encouraged Me To Pursue My Dreams. Whether It Is Your Parents, Or Your Uncles Or Your Aunts Or Even The Neighbor Down The Road, It's Important That Kids Have Someone Who Encourages Them To Chase Their Rainbow.

If I See Something Sagging, Dragging And Bagging, I’ll Get It Nip, Tucked, Sucked Or Plucked.

I've Always Wanted To Be A Star. I've Always Wanted Money And Wanted To Travel. So I Knew There Was A Price To Pay For That.

Mine Is A Jealous Heart, Imagines Things That Never Are.

Wildflowers Don't Care Where They Grow.

I Think That All Creative People Are A Little Bit Nuts.

If Your Actions Create A Legacy That Inspires Others To Dream More, Learn More, Do More And Become More, Then, You Are An Excellent Leader.

I Wear Make-up, And It Gets A Little Bit Thicker Every Year.

All The Fame And Fortune, Glory And Prestige, Can't Make Me Happy If It Goes Against What I Believe.

Don't Lose Your Temper; Use It.

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.

If I'd Married Someone In Show Business, There'd Be Too Much Competition.

Truth Is, I Wouldn't Know A Gigabyte From A Snakebite.

I Can't Tell Anybody Else How To Run Their Life Or Their Business, But I Really Believe I've Got A Good Bead On Myself.

People Say You Shouldn't Have Plastic Surgery Because If God Wanted You Another Way He Would Have Made You That Way, But I Say That's A Lot Of Crock. If God Didn't Want Plastic Surgeons, He Wouldn't Have Given Them Hands To Work With.

I Do Believe That Any Successful Business Starts From The Top And Works Its Way Down.

Love Is Like A Butterfly As Soft And Gentle As A Sigh The Multicolored Moods Of Love Are Like Its Satin Wings Love Makes Your Heart Feel Strange Inside It Flutters Like Soft Wings In Flight Love Is Like A Butterfly, A Rare And Gentle Thing.

What People Do Behind Closed Doors Is Certainly Not My Concern Unless I'm There With Them.

I'm Very Upfront And Very Honest. I Don't Let A Bunch Of Stuff Fester And Boil Over.

I've Tried Different Things Through The Years To Get Some Play On Mainstream. I'll Try To Tailor-make It.

You Have To Work Hard, In Order To Get Anything Done.

I Think [music And Acting], They Are Connected, All That Stuff. It's Your Emotional Self, Is Pretty Much How You Do It, I Think, From Whatever Place You Do It, Whether You're Acting Or You're Singing.

I Have Surrounded Myself With Very Smart People.

Everybody Has A Purpose.

Don't Get So Busy Making A Living That You Forget To Make A Life.

Any Business You Go Into, You Have To Think About How Much Money You Are Willing To Put Into It, And How Much You Are Not.

[on Being Overweight:] If I Tried To Haul Ass, I Would Have To Make Two Trips.

We Get Along Real Well Actually [with My Husband Karl Tomas Din]. We Give Each Other Space And He's Not In The Business And He Doesn't Want To Be. I'm Interested In His World, He's Interested In Mine, But We Have Our Own Things That We Do Together.

I'm Like A Cartoon! I'll Look This Way When I'm Eighty. I Can See It Now, People Will Be Rolling Me Around In A Wheelchair And I'll Still Have My Big Hair, Nails, My High Heels And My Boobs Stuck Out!

Dream More, Learn More, Care More, And Be More.

When The New Country Came Out Ten To 15 Years Ago, People My Age Were Almost Too Old. But It Never Stopped Me. I Never Stopped Writing. I Never Stopped Recording.

In The Country Field, We’re Brought Up In Spiritual Homes, We’re Taught To “judge Not Lest You Be Judged,” And It’s Always Been A Mystery To Me How People Jump All Over Things Just To Criticize, Condemn And Judge Other People When That Is So Un-christian – And They Claim To Be Good Christians! We’re Supposed To Love One Another. We’re Supposed To Accept And Love One Another. Whether We Do Or Not, That’s A Different Story. But That’s What We’re Supposed To Do.

No One Is Ever Successful At Everything That They Do.

We're All Just A Bunch Of Sinners, But We Do The Best We Can.

I Write Anywhere. I'm Always Banging Around On The Dashboard. Whatever I'm Doing. I Can Make Music Out Of Anything. Whenever A Song Hits Me, I'll Pick Some Sort Of Melody Or Rhythm Out On It, And Kind Of Enhance The Song.

I'm Just A Simple Country Girl.

Wondering If God Loves Us When We're Cheating? Oh, But Why He Lets Us Feel Things, If It's Wrong.

I've Never Been Pregnant, So I Just Feel God Didn't Mean For Me To Have Kids So That Everybody Else's Children Could Be Mine.

I Always Loved That Old Song Banks Of The Ohio - It Was Always Such A Man's Song, So I've Always Wanted To Record It.

If You Don't Like The Road You're Walking, Start Paving Another One.

You're No Elvis Presley, I'm No Marilyn Monroe, But I Do Think You're Sexy, Just Thought I'd Tell You So.

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

The Way I See It, If You Want The Rainbow, You Gotta Put Up With The Rain.

I Always Think Of Myself As A Working Girl.

I Tried Every Diet In The Book. I Tried Some That Weren't In The Book. I Tried Eating The Book. It Tasted Better Than Most Of The Diets.

I Look At Myself Like A Show Dog. I've Got To Keep Her Clipped And Trimmed And In Good Shape.

I Know My Hair Is Out Of The '60's, My Clothes Are '50's And The Shoes I Wear Are From The '40's. But I Like Looking Like I Came Out Of A Fairy Tale.

When I'm Feeling A Little Low, I Put On My Favorite High Heels To Stand A Little Taller.

If We All Climb Together, We Could Climb The Highest Hill.

I Think Your Values Are Always Influenced By Your Family And Your Community.

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

Unless You Have Spent Your Life Doing Something, You Are Not Likely To Be Successful, So Always Partner With People Who Are Smarter Than You.

I'm Easy To Look Like, So There Are Lots And Lots Of Dolly Look-alikes.

It Doesn't Bother Me When Someone Calls Me A 'dumb Blonde.' I'm Neither Dumb Or Blonde.

People Will Use You As Long As You Let Them.

I'm The Kind Of Person Who Would Rather Rock In My Rocking Chair When I'm Old And Regret A Few Things That I Did Than To Sit There And Regret That I Never Tried.

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.

I Would Never Stoop So Low As To Be Fashionable.

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.

I Write What I Write, Say What I Say, 'cause I Feel What I Feel, And If I Did It Different, It Would Make Me A Liar! So I'd Rather Be An Honest Person Than A Good Liar.

We Cannot Direct The Wind, But We Can Adjust The Sails.

The Guitar Is My Favorite And The One, I Guess, I'm Best At. But I Play Enough Of The Different Instruments To Be Able To Write With Them And To, Hopefully, To Make Myself Look Impressive On Stage.

Is Forever Longer Than Always?

Unanswered Questions

Lots Of Women Buy Just As Many Wigs And Makeup Things As I Do ... They Just Don't Wear Them All At The Same Time.

I Was The First Woman To Burn My Bra - It Took The Fire Department Four Days To Put It Out.

We're Phonies If We're Not Exactly Who We Are.

I Just Don't Have Time To Get Old!

The Magic Is Inside You. There Ain't No Crystal Ball

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