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Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.
Dolly Parton
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Dolly Parton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 19
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Country Musician
Country Singer
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Tennessee
Dolly Rebecca Parton
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I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
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I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'
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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 learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.
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I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
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God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.
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God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.
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I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
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I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
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I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
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I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.
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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
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No, I can't do rap music...
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They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.
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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.
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People get a kick out of my stupidity.
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Everybody has a purpose.
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We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
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When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
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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.
Dolly Parton
