The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
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.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.
God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
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