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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
Dolly Parton
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Dolly Parton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 19
Actor
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Banjoist
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Country Musician
Country Singer
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Guitarist
Pittman Center
Tennessee
Dolly Rebecca Parton
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I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.
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Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.
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I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.
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When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.
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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.
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Smile, it enhances your face value.
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I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.
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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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I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
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I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.
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I've never been a feminist.
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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.
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
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I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
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I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
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I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.
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Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
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No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by
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Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
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