"Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches."
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"My fat never made me less money."
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"My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen."
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"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."
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"'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another."
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"Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better."
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"I'll never graduate from collagen."
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"If I should stay I would only be in your way So I'll go, but I know I'll think of you each step of the way And I will always love you I will always love you Bitter sweet Memories That's all I am taking with me Good-bye. Please don't cry We both know that I'm not What you need But I will always love you I will always love you."
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"You have to work hard, in order to get anything done."
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"I bought all those [fitness] videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em."
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"I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people."
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"When I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller."
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"Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you."
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"I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it."
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"I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started."
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"It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know."
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"It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life."
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"A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty."
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"Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away."
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"I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things."
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