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I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

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
Guts
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Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!
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For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
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Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.
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It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.
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I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.
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Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
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I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
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Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.
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Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.
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If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.
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There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
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I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.
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My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
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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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I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.
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I think everyone should be with who they love.
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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 always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.
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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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