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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.

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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Living
Write
Truth
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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 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'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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I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
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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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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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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 don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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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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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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Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
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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 never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
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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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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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