"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
-Dolly Parton
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"I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.“
-Dolly Parton
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"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
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"I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with."
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"The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue."
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