Quotes from Dolly Parton

If you want to make it in this town," the woman went on, "being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don't hurt.

Don't ever be late. It's like proclaiming that your time is more important than someone else's.

my lede: How

Female singers should just be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish. "'The tomatoes of our salad are the females,'" Ruthanna said. "That was his exact quote. And that's why they call it Tomato-gate.

help us give books to kids who need them. Who crave them. And whose lives will be forever changed by them.

Smile, it increases your face value.

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It' their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It's their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you can be rich in talent and you can be rich in all those wonderful things.

I just like horny songs.

DOLLY INCLUDED THIS SONG ON HER Blue Smoke collection of 2014. "Try" is also a cornerstone song on the soundtrack of a 2020 Netflix original musical Christmas on the Square.

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.

In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

One day I was standing with my stage manager, Sandy Prudden, and Buddy Sheffield watching as Kermit the Frog (with the help of the late Jim Henson) sweetly sang a song. Sandy was always a big joker. He sidled up to me and said, "Isn't it amazing the way Kermit can sing like that with somebody's hand up his ass." Without missing a beat, I came back with, "Shoot, that ain't nothin'. I did that for seven years on the 'The Porter Wagoner Show.

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

You never do a whole lot unless your brave enough to try.'' Dolly Parton

Hell's Kitchen.

wondering what sort of person would live in a place like this,

in her mother's wedding gown

Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin' They just use your mind and you never get the credit It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it 9 to 5, yeah they got you where they want you There's a better life, and you dream about it, don't you? It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet

She talked about working around the clock and barely having time to eat, about sweating blood trying to make enough money to pay the band, the production staff, the promoters, the organizers, and the concert spaces, "not to mention forking out a regular four figures on your spangly outfits." "It's not a normal way to live," Ruthanna had said. Tell me more, was all AnnieLee could think.

I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn't play on the radio, but I didn't care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, "I shouldn't have done that." Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.