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My life has run from misery to happiness.

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
Misery
Happiness
Running
Life

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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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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 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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My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
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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 never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
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If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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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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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 know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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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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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
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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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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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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 won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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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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