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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

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 hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.
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I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
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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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I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
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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 write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.
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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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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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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 keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.
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I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.
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The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.
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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 did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
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The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.
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We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.
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You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
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