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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!'

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
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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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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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I want more out of life than I've gotten.
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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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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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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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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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I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
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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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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 know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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