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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.
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
Film Actor
Film Producer
Guitarist
Pittman Center
Tennessee
Dolly Rebecca Parton
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With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.
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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.
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I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
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We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
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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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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.
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I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
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No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
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Is forever longer than always?
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Some guys look better as they get older.
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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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A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
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I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.
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A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
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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.
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