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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.
Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how much you are not.
No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.
I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.
I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.
God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.
My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
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.
You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.
If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.
No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.
I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.
I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.
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.
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
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.
You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.
Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means.
People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.
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.
There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.
Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.
The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.
I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.
I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.
I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.
I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.
I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.
I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.
I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.