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I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

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 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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Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
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I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
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I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
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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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They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.
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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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I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.
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I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
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I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.
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I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.
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I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.
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I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'
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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
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Home is anywhere I hang my hair
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I always wanted to be loved.
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I've never let a rhinestone go unturned
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I can't do nothing just a little.
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After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
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