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

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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Country
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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 avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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I want more out of life than I've gotten.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.
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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'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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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'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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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, hey, goodbye! and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.
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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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When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
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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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You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
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