Dolly Parton Quotes

• You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

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  Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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• If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.

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  We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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• I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

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  If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

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  The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

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  If you want the rainbow… You’ve gotta put up with the rain.

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  Tags in Rainbow, Gotta

• My life has been very full.

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• My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

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• People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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• Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

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  Tags in Molehills, Making

• I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

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  Tags in Some, Writing

• 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.

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  Tags in Star, Manager

• 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.

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  Tags in Gonna, Trunk

• I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

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  Tags in Fashionable, Trying

• I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

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  Tags in Fans, Alive

• I’ve copyrighted 3,000 songs.

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• I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

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• I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

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Dolly Parton (57)

Birth:	19th January, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Lyricist, Singer

About

Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. She has composed over 3,000 songs, the best known of which include "I Will Always Love You", "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", "9 to 5", and "My Tennessee Mountain Home".

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• 1941 - Ludwig Quidde
• 1996 - Minnie Pearl
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• 1864 - Thomas Starr King
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