“I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.”
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Dolly Parton is the most honored and revered female singer-songwriter of all time. She has garnered eleven Grammy Awards and fifty-five nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1999, Parton was inducted into the coveted Country Music Hall of Fame, and in 2022, she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She is the author of multiple bestselling books, including ***Songteller***; ***Run, Rose, Run*** (with<a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL22258A" target="_blank"> James Patterson</a>); ***Behind the Seams***; and ***Good Lookin’ Cookin’***. To date, she has donated over 270 million books to children around the world with her <a href="https://imaginationlibrary.com" target="_blank">**Dolly Parton's Imagination Library**</a>, which is a part of the <a href="https://imaginationlibrary.com/the-dollywood-foundation/" target="_blank">Dollywood Foundation</a>, was founded in honor of her father, who never learned to read or write. It mails one book per month to each enrolled child from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten.
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“I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.”
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“I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.”
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“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.”
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“I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.”
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“I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'”
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“No, I can't do rap music!”
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“I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.”
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“I will never retire unless I have to.”
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“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.”
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“Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.”
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“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.”
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“I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.”
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“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.”
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“I have surrounded myself with very smart people.”
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“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!”
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“I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.”
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“I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.”
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“I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.”
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“I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.”
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“I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.”
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