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If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.
- Dolly Parton
#Business
#Competition
#Show
#Too Much
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
- Dolly Parton
#Movies
#Music
#Phone
#Technology
#Today
Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.
- Dolly Parton
#Big
#Hear
#Husband
#Music
#Rock
I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
- Dolly Parton
#Affected
#Everybody
#I Think
#Think
#Way
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
- Dolly Parton
#Country
#Driven
#Most
#Stories
#Stuff
I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.
- Dolly Parton
#Degree
#Everything
#Feel
#I Am
#Person
I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.
- Dolly Parton
#Again
#Get
#Like
#Poor
#Rich
I always think of myself as a working girl.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Girl
#Myself
#Think
#Working
I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
- Dolly Parton
#Doing
#Feel Good
#Feel
#Find
#Good
No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.
- Dolly Parton
#Been
#Better
#Could
#Looking
#Than
I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.
- Dolly Parton
#Being
#Man
#Never
#Seen
#Tell
I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
- Dolly Parton
#Breasts
#Death
#Lost
#Me
#Weight
There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
- Dolly Parton
#Country
#Grew
#Lot
#Up
#Where
Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.
- Dolly Parton
#Face
#Pretty
#Thanks
#Well
#Work
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
- Dolly Parton
#Day
#Dreams
#Every Day
#New
#Wake Up
I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.
- Dolly Parton
#Get
#I Am
#Like
#Person
#Things
I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
- Dolly Parton
#Easy
#Like
#Look
#Lots And Lots
#Lots
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.
- Dolly Parton
#Best
#Country
#Only
#Record
#Sold
I love Velveeta cheese.
- Dolly Parton
#Cheese
#I Love
#Love
I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Community
#Family
#Values
#Your
I think that I know the value of a dollar.
- Dolly Parton
#Dollar
#I Think
#Know
#Think
#Value
I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.
- Dolly Parton
#Every
#Little Bit
#Little
#Wear
#Year
A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
- Dolly Parton
#Great Things
#Great
#Me
#Money
#Things
I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
- Dolly Parton
#Child
#Come
#Family
#Little
#Lost
I think everyone should be with who they love.
- Dolly Parton
#Everyone
#Love
#Should
#Think
#Who
Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
- Dolly Parton
#Me
#People
#Somewhere
#Stay
#Time
I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'
- Dolly Parton
#Bells
#Corny
#I Love
#Know
#Love
I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
- Dolly Parton
#Because
#Bring
#Hungry
#Road
#Travel
I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
- Dolly Parton
#Go
#Know
#Looking
#People
#Way
I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.
- Dolly Parton
#About
#I Am
#Secure
#Talents
#Who
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Could
#Mother
#Rhyme
#Stuff
No one is ever successful at everything that they do.
- Dolly Parton
#Ever
#Everything
#Successful
I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.
- Dolly Parton
#Diet
#Done
#Everything
#Fat
#Person
I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
- Dolly Parton
#Backwards
#Bend
#Diva
#I Am
#People
Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.
- Dolly Parton
#Fans
#First Time
#Love
#Time
#World
I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.
- Dolly Parton
#Dreams
#I Am
#Life
#Me
#My Life
There are some loony people in this world!
- Dolly Parton
#Loony
#People
#Some
#World
I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
- Dolly Parton
#Like
#Look
#Man
#Think
#Woman
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
- Dolly Parton
#Husband
#Raise
#School
#Us
#Younger
I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
- Dolly Parton
#Because
#Big
#Just
#Short
#Watch
I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.
- Dolly Parton
#Flirt
#Like
#Love
#Man
#Never
I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
- Dolly Parton
#Get
#How
#Old
#Radio
#Think
Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.
- Dolly Parton
#Down
#New
#Plan
#Sit
#Whole
I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
- Dolly Parton
#Play
#Things
#Through
#Tried
#Try
I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Love
#Never
#She
#Work
I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
- Dolly Parton
#Any
#Childhood
#Gay
#Know
#People
My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.
- Dolly Parton
#Home
#I Can
#Me
#Place
#Places
'Wrecking Ball' is a great song.
- Dolly Parton
#Ball
#Great Song
#Great
#Song
All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
- Dolly Parton
#Brothers
#Right
#Sisters
#Talented
#Very
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
- Dolly Parton
#Doing
#Music
#Pretty
#Sure
#Years
I love story songs because I've always loved books.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Love Story
#Love
#Loved
#Story
I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.
- Dolly Parton
#Politician
#Want
I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
- Dolly Parton
#Fashionable
#Never
#Trying
There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Me
#Talk
#White
#Work
I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
- Dolly Parton
#Come
#Family
#Never
#Now
#Will
I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.
- Dolly Parton
#Being
#Keep
#Nobody
#Somebody
#Star
I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
- Dolly Parton
#Doubt
#Fear
#Life
#Live
#People
I'm a workin' girl.
- Dolly Parton
#Girl
My grandpa was a preacher.
- Dolly Parton
#Grandpa
#Preacher
I'm just a simple country girl.
- Dolly Parton
#Country
#Girl
#Just
#Simple
I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
- Dolly Parton
#Believe
#Business
#Down
#Successful
#Way
I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
- Dolly Parton
#Children
#Feel
#God
#Me
#Never
I will never retire unless I have to.
- Dolly Parton
#Never
#Retire
#Unless
#Will
Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
- Dolly Parton
#Good
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#Success
I think that I'm perfect.
- Dolly Parton
#I Think
#Perfect
#Think
I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.
- Dolly Parton
#Exercise
#House
#Kitchen
#Shoes
#Short
I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.
- Dolly Parton
#Comfortable
#Matter
#My Own
#Own
#Skin
I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.
- Dolly Parton
#Feel
#Know
#People
#Remember
#Time
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
- Dolly Parton
#Believe
#Business
#Good
#Life
#Myself
Everybody has a purpose.
- Dolly Parton
#Everybody
#Purpose
I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Fans
#Loved
#My Own
#Own
Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Making
#Mountains
#Out
#Plastic
I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
- Dolly Parton
#Business
#My Own
#Own
#People
#Start
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
- Dolly Parton
#College
#People
#Young People
#Young
I love being active.
- Dolly Parton
#Active
#Being
#I Love
#Love
Sevier County is a great area.
- Dolly Parton
#Area
#County
#Great
It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Good
#Great
#Home
#Perform
I've been very fortunate.
- Dolly Parton
#Been
#Fortunate
#Very
When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
- Dolly Parton
#Around
#Down
#Get
#Long
I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
- Dolly Parton
#Done
#Fair
#Little
#Scars
#Tattoos
Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
- Dolly Parton
#Always
#Because
#Children
#Look
#Me
People get a kick out of my stupidity.
- Dolly Parton
#Get
#Kick
#Out
#People
#Stupidity
I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
- Dolly Parton
#Did
#Lord
#Thank
I have little bones.
- Dolly Parton
#Bones
#Little
I try not to go around looking like a hag.
- Dolly Parton
#Around
#Go
#Like
#Looking
#Try
People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.
- Dolly Parton
#Business
#Change
#Fame
#Money
#Problems
It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.
- Dolly Parton
#Being
#Easy
#Hard
#Know
#Young
My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
- Dolly Parton
#First
#Good
#Phone
#Together
#Two
I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'
- Dolly Parton
#American
#Get
#Honored
#Idol
#Very
First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.
- Dolly Parton
#Breakfast
#Fix
#Morning
#Spiritual
#Work
I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
- Dolly Parton
#Like
#Me
#People
#Person
#Three
I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.
- Dolly Parton
#About
#Friends
#Most
#Things
#Write
I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'
- Dolly Parton
#Evil
#Me
#Money
#Why
#Will
I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.
- Dolly Parton
#Children
#Future
#Hope
#Television
#Will
'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.
- Dolly Parton
#End
#Love
#Song
#Way
#Will
My fat never made me less money.
- Dolly Parton
#Fat
#Less
#Me
#Money
#Never
I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
- Dolly Parton
#Been
#Me
#Places
#Poor
#Where
There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.
- Dolly Parton
#Good
#Heart
#Like
#Medicine
#True
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
- Dolly Parton
#Car
#Gonna
#Kind
#Making
#Sell
I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.
- Dolly Parton
#Ever
#Ready
#Tell
#You
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