3 December 2020 Dolly Parton 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton 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.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton 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.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton 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.
3 December 2020 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 don’t know what’s goin’ on, I then got the money, and gone.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton 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.
3 December 2020 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 didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.
