"Being a star just means that you..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.”

“I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.”

“The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!”

“It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.”

“The deep pain that is feltat the death of every friendly soularises from the feeling that there isin every individual somethingwhich is inexpressible,peculiar to him alone,and is, therefore,absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

“He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.”

“After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'”

“No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!”

“Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.”