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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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Truth
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If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!
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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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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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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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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 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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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've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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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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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened 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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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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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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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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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 won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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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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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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