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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.
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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Hungry
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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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 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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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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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're the reason our kids are ugly.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.
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If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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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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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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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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