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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.
Loretta Lynn
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Loretta Lynn
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
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Butcher Holler
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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 wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
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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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Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.
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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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You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
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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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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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I want more out of life than I've gotten.
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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
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Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
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I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'
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Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
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All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
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