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Dolly Parton

I think every entertainers had nights when things go wrong. I mean you cant remember everything all the time, and especially if youre 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

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think its like a battery: youve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. – Dolly Parton

If you talk bad about country music, its like saying bad things about my momma. Thems fightin words. – Dolly Parton

Im not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know Im not dumb… and I also know that Im not blonde. – Dolly Parton

The only way Id 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. – Dolly Parton

Im not happy all the time, and I wouldnt want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody. – Dolly Parton

Its a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise Id be a drag queen. – Dolly Parton

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didnt even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then. – Dolly Parton

Ive never had a divorce, but Ive seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that cant write about it. I take on their sorrow, so Im able to kind of express it, or their joy. – Dolly Parton

Im gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell em out of the trunk of my car. Im that kind of musician and singer. – Dolly Parton

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I dont know whats goin on, I then got the money, and gone. – Dolly Parton

I cant tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe Ive got a good bead on myself. – Dolly Parton

I think Ive 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 couldnt 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. – Dolly Parton

Stop this attitude that older people aint any good anymore! Were as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good. – Dolly Parton

I dont have anything to say about other peoples art and their work. – Dolly Parton

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. – Dolly Parton

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

I was always a junk food person, still am. – Dolly Parton

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order. – 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