"You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true."
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"They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder."
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"I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over."
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"Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face."
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"Every day I pray about all I do."
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"I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'"
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"I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens."
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"You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished."
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"Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit."
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"I may look fake but I'm real where it counts."
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"I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive."
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"If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!"
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"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."
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"The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that."
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"I love story songs because I've always loved books."
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"Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it."
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"I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager."
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"I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs."
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"When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'."
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"Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!"
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