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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

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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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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
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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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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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