Dolly Parton Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.
I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.
People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.
You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so.
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.
I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.
Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.
Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.
If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.
Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.
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.
I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast.
Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.
The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.
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.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.
I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.
When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.
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.
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
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.
A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.