Dolly Parton Quotes

• You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

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• Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

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• People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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• My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

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• My life has been very full.

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• My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

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• 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.

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• I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

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• I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

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• I’ve copyrighted 3,000 songs.

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• I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

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• I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

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• 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.

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• I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

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• I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

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• I was always a junk food person, still am.

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• I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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• I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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• I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

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• I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

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Dolly Parton (57)

Birth:	19th January, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Lyricist, Singer

About

Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. She has composed over 3,000 songs, the best known of which include "I Will Always Love You", "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", "9 to 5", and "My Tennessee Mountain Home".

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• 1974 - Tiffani Thiessen
• 1944 - Rutger Hauer
• 1915 - Potter Stewart
• 1962 - Richard Roxburgh
• 1964 - Mariska Hargitay

Deaths

• 1996 - Norman MacCaig
• 1943 - Alexander Woollcott
• 1947 - Pierre Bonnard
• 1991 - Northrop Frye
• 1893 - Phillips Brooks