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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Dolly Parton

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Dolly Parton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 19
Actor
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Banjoist
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Country Musician
Country Singer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Guitarist
Pittman Center
Tennessee
Dolly Rebecca Parton
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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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Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.
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You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
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I've never let a rhinestone go unturned
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My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
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To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.
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I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
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The world is my stage. 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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I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.
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With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.
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We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
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When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.
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Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.
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That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
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My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
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One is only poor, only if they choose to be.
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My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
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Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
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You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.
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I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.
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