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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

Dolly Parton

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Dolly Parton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 19
Actor
Autobiographer
Banjoist
Businessperson
Composer
Country Musician
Country Singer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Guitarist
Pittman Center
Tennessee
Dolly Rebecca Parton
Open
Feel
Feels
Heart
Things
Harden
Stay

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That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
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Don't lose your temper use it.
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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 can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.
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Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
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When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.
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I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
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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.
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If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.
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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.
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It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.
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Life is a song to me.
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I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again. I've got thousands of songs.
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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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I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'
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