"Don't lose your temper; use it."
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"I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way."
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"No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by"
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"If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband."
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"Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love."
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"Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world."
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"I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it."
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"I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it."
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"My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails."
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"I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite."
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"That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else."
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"My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation."
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"One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most."
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"I know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate."
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"My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields."
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"I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another."
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"I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well."
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"If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition."
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"I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life."
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"I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it."
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