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INTERVIEW
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It’s very creative for me, so I always cook and
write, usually at the same time. When I prepare to
write, what I love to do—my favorite thing to do in
the world—is to have time set aside, like two or
three weeks to say I’m just going to go write. I go
up to my old mountain home. Sometimes I fast
and pray for a few days to get myself kind of in a
spiritual place—get through the headaches, and
everything with comes with the fasting till I get
kind of clear. I hate to fast but I try to do that and
kind of humble myself a little bit. After that, I get
into the writing, then it starts to be creative, and
then I can cook. After I’ve got connected.
JU: You are in tremendous shape. You’re a
flirt. You say you’ve never met a man you
don’t like, yet you’re a role model for women.
What do you attribute that to
DP: Well, I think women see me more like a sister
or a girlfriend, or like a special aunt. I think they
sense that feeling I have for them because all of
my sisters—I have five—and I were very close
to my mother, my aunts, and my grandmas, so
I just really connect with women. But I don’t
think women are threatened by me. Because I’m
overdone, I’m more like a cartoon character, so I
don’t think they feel threatened in that way either.
Like I’m going to steal their man.
JU: In your book My Life And Other
Unfinished Beauty, there are a number of
photographs of you. Despite what you say,
you really were a natural beauty.
DP: I’m really not, trust me. You haven’t seen me
without all my makeup. Even in those pictures, I
was already made-up. I’m not a natural beauty so
I’ve tried to make the most of everything I’ve got.
I’ve tried to turn all my negatives into as many
positives as I can. That makes me feel better.
JU: You were never afraid to show your brains
or your tough side. Even in less-enlightened
times. Where does that come from
(continued)
10. Parton has never made a
big decision without fasting first.
She usually fasts in multiples
of seven. Either seven days, 14
days, or 21 days.
11. She was rejected from the
high-school cheerleading squad
at Sevier County High School.
12. The Ku Klux Klan once
picketed Dollywood because of
Parton’s annual Gay Day.
13. She once played herself
in an episode of “Alvin & the
Chipmunks.”
14. Kevin Costner was the
one insisted Whitney Houston
record Parton’s “I Will Always
Love You” for The Bodyguard.
15. “I Will Always Love You”
was Saddam Hussein’s reelection
theme song.
16. A photograph of Parton’s
little-seen husband Carl Dean
is on the cover 1969’s My Blue
Ridge Mountain Boy.
17. Parton received death
threats after she wrote
“Travelin’ Thru” for the
film Transamerica, about a
transgender woman.
18. She has three tattoos: An
angel on her upper left arm,
butterfly on her chest, and a red
flower in between her cleavage.
19. Her production company,
Sandollar, produced the hit
show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
20. Parton hates to fly and
suffers from motion sickness.
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