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You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

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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My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
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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 won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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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 refuse to be pushed around anymore.
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Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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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 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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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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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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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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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
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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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