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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
Actor
Autobiographer
Banjoist
Businessperson
Composer
Country Musician
Country Singer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Guitarist
Pittman Center
Tennessee
Dolly Rebecca Parton
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I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.
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There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].
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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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I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
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Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
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Love is like a butterfly As soft and gentle as a sigh The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings Love makes your heart feel strange inside It flutters like soft wings in flight Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.
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One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
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I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.
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I'm not sixty, I'm sexty.
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I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast.
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God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.
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Leave something good in every day.
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All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
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My grandpa was a preacher.
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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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Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.
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I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.
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I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!
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A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep with a note that they wanted us to raise it. Of course, we contacted the authorities and they took care of the baby.
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