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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Loretta Lynn

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Loretta Lynn
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Violinist
Butcher Holler
Kentucky
Loretta Webb
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Write
Feelings
Writing
Something
Bothering
Bother
Tells

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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
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I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.
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Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
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You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
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I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
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My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.
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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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