Dolly Parton Quotes - Page 10

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 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.

I'll never graduate from collagen.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

There are some loony people in this world!

I was always a junk food person, still am.

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

Everybody has a purpose.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Everything is nothing when you got no one.

I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I don't keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.

I always wanted to be loved.

I've never been a feminist.

I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.