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My nails are my rhythm section, when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

— Dolly Parton

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“My style is my soul and my feelings. I’ll tell the world in my songs what I wouldn’t have told my mother.”

My Tennessee Mountain Home (1973)

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta be willing to put up with the rain.

The Scrapbooker's Guide to Business : What You Need to Know Before You Invest (2003)

My joke [is that] if I have any regrets, it’s that I got caught with some of the stuff that I had no regret about.

I look so totally artificial, but I’ve always been the simplest person in the world.

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.

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Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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