Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort."
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"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort."
Dolly Parton
"If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad."
Dolly Parton
"I was always a junk food person, still am."
Dolly Parton
"I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then."
Dolly Parton
"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."
Dolly Parton
"I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy."
Dolly Parton
"They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart."
Dolly Parton
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
Dolly Parton
"First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes."
Dolly Parton
"I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches."
Dolly Parton
"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
Dolly Parton
"Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do."
Dolly Parton
"Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart."
Dolly Parton
"No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!"
Dolly Parton
"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."
Dolly Parton
"I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me."
Dolly Parton
"A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them."
Dolly Parton
"I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say."
Dolly Parton
"As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!"
Dolly Parton
"The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue."
Dolly Parton
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