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I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little. — Dolly Parton

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. — Dolly Parton

I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele. — Casey Wilson

I'm a show-off basically ... always have been. — Dolly Parton

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. — Dolly Parton

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool ... but that's just natural. — Dolly Parton

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career. — Dolly Parton

I do wear wigs ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it. — Dolly Parton

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. — Dolly Parton

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy. — Dolly Parton

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair. — Dolly Parton

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things. — Dolly Parton

My husband says I look like a Q-tip. — Dolly Parton

You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else. — Dolly Parton

My mistakes are no worse than yours. — Dolly Parton

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline. — Laura Bell Bundy

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way. — Dolly Parton

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do. — Dolly Parton

Finally, thank you, Dolly Parton. Just because. — Amy Poehler

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares. — Dolly Wells

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on. — Dolly Parton

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. — Dolly Parton

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple. — Dolly Parton

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. — Dolly Parton

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids. — Dolly Parton

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder. — Dolly Parton

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent. — Dolly Parton

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me? — Dolly Parton

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite. — Dolly Parton

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt. — Dolly Parton

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures. — Dolly Parton

People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike. — Dolly Parton

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks. — Dolly Parton

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know. — Dolly Parton

Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!. — Dolly Parton

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

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else. — Dolly Parton

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Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. — Dolly Parton

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time. — Dolly Parton

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us. — Dolly Parton

When I have sex with my husband, I fantasize I am with a petite, hot young woman. — Dolly Parton

I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed. — Dolly Parton

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder. — Dolly Parton

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it. — Dolly Parton

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are. — Dolly Parton

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone. — Dolly Parton

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. — Dolly Parton

I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back. — Dolly Parton

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan. — Dolly Parton

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that. — Dolly Parton

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains. — Dolly Parton

Smile -- it increases your face value. — Dolly Parton

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you. — Dolly Parton

I'm not your Dolly anymore — M.K. Williams

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear. — Dolly Parton

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. — Dolly Parton

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

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap. — Dolly Parton

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing. — Dolly Parton

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do. — Dolly Parton

People will use you as long as you let them. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible. — Robert Plant

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame. — Dolly Parton

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger. — Dolly Parton

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world. — Dolly Parton

I've even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor! — Heidi Montag

Smile, it increases you face value. — Dolly Parton

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself. — Dolly Parton

I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence. — Dolly Parton

[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips. — Dolly Parton

God made me the way that I am and it's my business to be true to that. — Dolly Parton

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'. — Dolly Parton

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton. — Jamie Lynn Spears

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy. — Dolly Parton

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion. — Dolly Parton

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community. — Dolly Parton

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet. — Dolly Parton

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different. — Dolly Parton

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood. — Dolly Parton

I always think of myself as a working girl. — Dolly Parton

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy. — Dolly Parton

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him. — Dolly Parton

I can't do nothing just a little. — Dolly Parton

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain ... You're always threatened by other women, period. — Dolly Parton

I always wanted to be loved. — Dolly Parton

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep. — Jeremy Hardy

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts ... — Dolly Parton

Paradise is a state of mind. — Dolly Parton

Less is not more. More is more. — Dolly Parton

Everything is nothing when you got no one. — Dolly Parton

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right. — Dolly Parton

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. — Dolly Parton

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens. — Dolly Parton

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. — Dolly Parton

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road. — Dolly Parton

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story. — Dolly Parton

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. — Dolly Parton

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it. — Dolly Parton

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings. — Dolly Parton