Quotes by Dolly Parton

"I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them."

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"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."

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"Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be."

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

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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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"The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone."

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

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"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

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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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"I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person."

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"God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people."

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

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"I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red."

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"I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that."

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