Dolly Rebecca Parton
Dolly Parton is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman, known primarily for her decades-long career in country music. (Dolly Parton Quotes)
“A minute to Dolly’s like a lifetime to everybody else.”
Dolly Parton
Coat of Many Colors
“Although I look like a drag queen’s Christmas tree on the outside, I am at heart a simple country woman.”
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Dolly
“Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter’s worth of wonder.”
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Dolly
“Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.”
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Run, Rose, Run
“But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.”
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Run, Rose, Run
“Dark night, bright future
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Like the phoenix from the ashes, I shall rise again”
Run, Rose, Run
“Driven to insanity, driven to the edge
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Driven to the point of almost no return
Driven to think awful thoughts, do awful things
But at least I’d like to think I’ve learned
I’m driven
Driven to be smarter
Driven to work harder
Driven to be better everyday
Driven to keep on and on
To achieve the things I want
I’ll be sorry if I don’t
Make the most of livin’
I’m driven”
Run, Rose, Run
“Fate granted some people their wildest, greatest wishes while leaving the simplest pleas of others unanswered.”
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Run, Rose, Run
“I flapped open the lid of my cardboard guitar case and whipped out my old Martin. Mr. Killen seemed a little taken aback. I think he wasn’t sure whether I was going to play the guitar or brain him with it. He breathed a sigh of relief when I went into a song. Bill hustled his guitar out as fast as he could and joined in. I sang loud and strong with the security that comes with knowing that one way or another, it’ll be over soon.”
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“I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that’s how memories are made, and that’s why I’m sitting here today.”
Dolly Parton
Songteller
“I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.”
Dolly Parton
Dream More
“I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.” (Dolly Parton Quotes)
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Dream More
“I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn’t play on the radio, but I didn’t care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, “I shouldn’t have done that.” Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.”
Dolly Parton
Songteller
“If I can hold God’s attention, I can hold the world’s.”
Dolly Parton
Coat of Many Colors
“If you want to make it in this town, being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don’t hurt.”
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Run, Rose, Run
“If you want to make it in this town,” the woman went on, “being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don’t hurt.”
Dolly Parton
Run, Rose, Run
“I’m back where I started, she marveled. But now everything’s different.”
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Run, Rose, Run
“Is it easy? She sang again. No it ain’t. Can I fix it? No I can’t. But I sure ain’t gonna take it lyin’ down”
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Run, Rose, Run
“Is it easy?
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No it ain’t
Can I fix it?
No I cain’t
But I sure ain’t gonna take it lyin’ down”
Run, Rose, Run
“It would be better to have a new enemy, wouldn’t it, instead of an old one? The demons of the past were the hardest to slay.”
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Run, Rose, Run
“It’s like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn’t work without the other. You’ve gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what’s right, and in order to know what’s real and what ain’t.”
Dolly Parton
Songteller
“Lost count of all the countless things
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I’ve lost throughout the years
Lost friends and time and interest in
The things I should hold dear
Lost sleep just pondering the things
That have been lost to me
Especially the loss of love
I’ve need desperately
I find it doesn’t help at all
To sit around and brood
I find nobody gives a damn
About your petty moods
At least that’s what I thought
Until the day you came along
Now, I found my restless soul
Has finally found a home
Lost and found, I’m safe sound
No more drifting aimlessly, I’ve settled down
I’ve finally came around
No more to roam, those days are gone
I was alone, now I know I don’t have to be
Since your amazing love has found me”
Run, Rose, Run
“She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line. Everything was a business–even art. She’d written the songs, but she wouldn’t be able to truly own them. Not if she wanted the rest of the world to hear them.”
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Run, Rose, Run
“So here I was trying to get married to a man who hadn’t really asked me, with a boss that didn’t want me to and a town that wouldn’t let me do it when I wanted. Yet I knew in my heart it was right.”
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Dolly
“Sometimes you could see the scars and sometimes you couldn’t. But everybody had them.” (Dolly Parton Quotes)
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Run, Rose, Run
“There’s some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It’ their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you’re constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you’re worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be wary of the monkeys.”
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Dream More
“They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.”
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Dolly
“When a girl didn’t have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self.”
Dolly Parton
Run, Rose, Run
“When I discovered that there was actually a thing called a push-up bra, that, to me, had to be equal of the day Einstein figured out that relativity thing.”
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Dolly
“When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.”
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“Wouldn’t it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.”
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