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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

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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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I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
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It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, hey, goodbye! and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.
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I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
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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 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'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 don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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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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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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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 avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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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.
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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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Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
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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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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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