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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
Wash
Retiring
Dishes
Really
Retire

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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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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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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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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 don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
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