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Dolly Parton Once Said Her Sisters Didn’t Have Enough ‘Ambition’ to Make It as Professional Singers
Dolly Parton on growing up in a musical family and why she's the only one in show business. (Or, was, back in 1967.)
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Dolly Parton Once Said Getting ‘Peed on’ Was Her and Her Siblings’ Greatest ‘Pleasure’ in the Winter as Kids
Dolly Parton on what it was like growing up in a one-bedroom cabin without heat and running water with her 11 brothers and sisters.
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Dolly Parton Once Said Johnny Cash Was ‘Dramatic,’ Not ‘a Good Singer’
Dolly Parton's feeling and opinions about Johnny Cash through the years. She was smitten with him as a young girl and critical of his music as a new artist.
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Dolly Parton Reveals the Length and Color of Her Real Hair
Dolly Parton on her hair and makeup routine, how she wears her hair at home, and why she started wearing wigs in the first place.
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Dolly Parton Wanted 6 Children When She Was 21
Dolly Parton never had any children with her husband, Carl Dean. In a 1967 interview, she speaks about her plans to have six kids.
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Dolly Parton Thought It Was ‘Definitely Possible’ That She’d Become a Preacher in Addition to Singing
Dolly Parton's mother always expected her to become a preacher. Back in 1978, the 'Jolene' singer thought it was still a possibility.
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Dolly Parton Never Wanted ‘to Be Elvis,’ but Thinks They Share Some Major Similarities
Dolly Parton spoke about Elvis Presley in her interview with Playboy Magazine in 1978. She thought they were very similar people. Could she be the next Elvis?
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Why Dolly Parton Used to Think Her Career Would End After 5 Years
Dolly Parton thought she only had about five years in the spotlight. Here's why, and everything she wanted to accomplish during that time.
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Dolly Parton on What Makes Her Feel ‘Terribly Insulted’
Dolly Parton feels 'terribly insulted' when people put down country music. Here's why she thinks the genre is so special.
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Dolly Parton Once Called Woody Allen ‘Sexy’: ‘He Is so Cute That He Is Sexy’
Dolly Parton had never thought about acting in movies. But 20th Century Fox was interested in her. Here's Parton in 1978 on who she wanted to work with in film.
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Dolly Parton Once Said What She Attributes Her Success to (and It’s Not Her Talent)
Dolly Parton has wanted to be a star since she was a little girl. Lots of people told her to not dream too big, but she's always been her own biggest cheerleader.
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How Dolly Parton Was Disciplined as a Child: ‘He Whipped Us With His Belt’
Dolly Parton on how she was disciplined by her parents while growing up — who was the stricter parent and what she could get away with.
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How Dolly Parton Learned About the Birds and the Bees: ‘We Were Always Experimenting’
Dolly Parton's parents didn't teach her about the facts of life. Here's how the Queen of Country learned about sex.
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Dolly Parton on Growing up Without Bathroom Facilities: ‘We’d Go to the River’
Dolly Parton on what it was like for her and her family growing up in the mountains without a bathroom.
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Why Dolly Parton’s Husband Carl Dean Continued to Work After She Became Famous
Dolly Parton told Playboy Magazine in 1978 that her husband still woke up at dawn every day to get to work. Here are the kinds of jobs he'd do and why he insisted on working.
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Dolly Parton on the Violent Feud Between Her Family and Their Neighbors in the Mountains of East Tennessee
Dolly Parton on the feud her family had with their neighbors while she was growing up. How it started and how the Partons' enemies saved their mother's life.
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The ‘Embarrassing’ Things Dolly Parton’s Schoolmates Would Say Behind Her Back: ‘They’re Not Real’
Dolly Parton on finding her signature look at a young age and how her classmates reacted.
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Dolly Parton Once Explained How Her Family Tree Has so Many ‘Double First Cousins’: ‘It Sounds Like I’m My Own Grandpa’
Dolly Parton on the qualities she got from her mother and her father, and why there's so much overlap in her family tree.
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Dolly Parton Used to Get ‘Perverted’ Letters From a Man in a Mental Institution: ‘I Kept Those’
Dolly Parton on what her fans were like in 1978. They were just starting get really 'rowdy' at concerts, and she always had a mound of fan mail from a vast array of people.
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Dolly Parton Once Said She’s ‘Not One of [Her] Favorite Singers’: ‘I’m Not a Great Singer’
Dolly Parton on how she didn't like her voice in 1978, how her husband has never been her biggest fan, and how her real fans didn't appreciate it when she changed her style.
