Dolly Parton explains why she turned down a fortune: she views talent as a God-given responsibility, sees setbacks as learning experiences, and feels she has everything to gain and nothing to lose. Her unwavering self-confidence and commitment to authenticity over money made her a legend.
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I am sure of myself as a person. I'm sure of my talent. And to me, and I'm sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I'm very content. I like the kind of person that I am. If I fail, it's no big deal. If something don't work out, I'm not afraid of failure because to me, I never feel like a loser. You know, even when I've lost, I still, you know, feel like I'm winning because I'm earning some sort of, you know, experience or something that I can use somewhere else. We were planning to see if we could do something like, Mama's little children love shortening, shortening. Mama's little children love shortening bread. Mama's little children love shortening, shortening.
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I always felt like I have everything to gain and nothing to lose. And all I had was myself. I happened to believe that I had a God-given talent, and I felt like it was my responsibility to work that and do as much with that as I could. Don't judge a book by the COVID 'Cause I'm a real good book. Don't be fooled by thinking that the goods are not all there. Don't let these false eyelashes lead you to believe that I'm as phony as I look, 'cause I run true and deep.
I don't try to tell other people what to do. People are always saying, what kind of advice would you give? I say, I don't give people advice.
I have information if you wanna know some facts and if you wanna know, you know, sometimes how I dealt with something. But I do believe that everybody has a right to be themselves. There's a lot to be said about being comfortable with who you are. 'Cause I don't know how to be anybody else. I don't want to be anybody else. I'm not responsible for anybody else, but I'm responsible for me.
