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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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Loretta Lynn
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Violinist
Butcher Holler
Kentucky
Loretta Webb
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If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.
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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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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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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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When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike 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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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
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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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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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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
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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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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 wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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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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