Quotes from Dolly Parton

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.