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You're the reason our kids are ugly.

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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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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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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Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.
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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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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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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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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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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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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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I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
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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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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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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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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 never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
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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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You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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