"I think everyone should be with who they love."
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"I try not to go around looking like a hag."
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"I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too."
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"I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?"
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"I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year."
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"I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off."
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"There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up."
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"People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves."
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"In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula."
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"First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes."
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"It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried."
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"If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn."
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"Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans."
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"I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine."
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"I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own."
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"After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again."
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"I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes."
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"I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out."
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"I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it."
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"As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!"
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