Dolly Rebecca Parton (b.1946) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and children’s author. This winner of seven Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, and ten Country Music Association Awards is best known for establishing the interface between country and pop music styles over a career spanning half a century.
Born into poverty in Locust Ridge, Sevier County, Tennessee, Parton used her talent and willpower to become one of the best-known women in country- and pop-music. She also made several movies, including Nine to Five (1980) and Steel Magnolias (1989,) and she established Dollywood, a theme park in Tennessee. Her entrepreneurial intuition has made the subsequent expansion ventures into a business empire spanning everything from theme parks and hotels to media production and intellectual property.
As a philanthropist, Parton founded the Imagination Library, which sends a free book every month to every kid under the age of five. She has donated money to hospitals and provided schools with much-needed technology.
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I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.
—Dolly Parton
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
—Dolly Parton
I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
—Dolly Parton
Topics: Intelligence
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
—Dolly Parton
Topics: Being True to Yourself
Leave something good in every day.
—Dolly Parton
Topics: Action
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
—Dolly Parton
Topics: Difficulties, Rain, Perseverance, Balance, Endurance, Resolve, Adversity, Nature
When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.
—Dolly Parton
Topics: Inspiration
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, than you are an excellent leader.
—Dolly Parton
Topics: Act, Learn, Action, Dream, Create
I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
—Dolly Parton
Topics: Feminism, Women
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
—Dolly Parton
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