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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

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
Retire
Wash
Retiring
Dishes
Really

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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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My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
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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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I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
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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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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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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 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 won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
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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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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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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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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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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 avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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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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