Dolly Parton

Singer, Songwriter, Actress

Dolly Parton is a celebrated singer-songwriter and philanthropist known for her impactful music and advocacy for literacy and women's rights.

Born
January 19, 1946
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Rank
#426

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"My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt... so it was time to get them done!"

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"I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area."

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"Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly."

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"My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures."

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"My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart."

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"I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs."

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"I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love."

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"Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume."

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"My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains."

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"We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying."

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"When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris."

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"I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty."

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"I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing."

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"Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues."

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"Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more."

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"Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face."

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"I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep."

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"If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked."

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"Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got."

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"I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'"

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