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When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

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Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

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I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

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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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No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.

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No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

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We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

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I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

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Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

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Some guys look better as they get older.

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That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!

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Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

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A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

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You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'

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I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

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The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

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I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

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I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

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Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

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I love story songs because I've always loved books.

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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

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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.

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I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

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

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I have little bones.

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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!

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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

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You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

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I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

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I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

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God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

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My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

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When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.

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I just don't have time to get old!

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