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Legendary country star Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, but she made a prediction more than four decades earlier about which one of her famous \u201cDolly-isms\u201d might show up on her tombstone.<\/p>\n

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In 1982, while filming \u201cThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,\u201d Parton coined a phrase that she would repeat on numerous occasions \u2014 so often, in fact, that she told Vanity Fair 26 years later that she expected to see it on her headstone one day.<\/p>\n

The phrase in question? \u201cIt costs a lot of money to look this cheap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parton made no secret over the years that she\u2019d modeled her signature look after the town tramp \u2014 declaring during a number of interviews that she\u2019d grown up in awe of this confident woman with \u201cperoxide-blonde hair\u201d who wore tight clothes and red lipstick. Her mother had told her at the time that the woman was \u201ctrash,\u201d a \u201ctramp\u201d \u2014 but Parton said she\u2019d known immediately that was what she wanted to be when she grew up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of patterned myself after what they called the town tramp in my hometown, when I was little,\u201d Parton explained to CBS anchor Julie Chen on \u201cThe Early Show\u201d in 2006. \u201cShe left a big impression on me, and I would talk about how beautiful she was and different ones would say, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s just trash.\u2019 And I thought, \u2018That\u2019s what I want to be when I grow up. I\u2019m gonna be trash!\u2019 And that is how I look.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parton also said her flashy outward look was an attempt to match her flashy personality.<\/p>\n

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But as flashy as she was, Parton never took herself too seriously \u2014 and routinely delivered self-deprecating quips about her flamboyant style and multiple cosmetic procedures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world,\u201d she said more than once \u2014 and she told The Guardian in 2011, \u201cIf something is bagging, sagging or dragging, I\u2019ll tuck it, suck it or pluck it \u2026 It\u2019s like what I always say: I may look fake but I\u2019m real where it counts.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked how she still looked so young, she quipped, \u201cWell, good lighting, good doctors and good makeup.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The country music icon was 80 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legendary country star Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, but she made a prediction more than four decades earlier about which one of her famous \u201cDolly-isms\u201d might show up on her tombstone.In 1982, while filming \u201cThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,\u201d Parton coined a phrase that she would repeat on numerous occasions \u2014 so often, in fact, that she told Vanity Fair 26 years later that she expected to see it on her headstone one day.The phrase in question? \u201cIt costs a lot of money to look this cheap.\u201dParton made no secret over the years that she\u2019d modeled her signature look after the town tramp \u2014 declaring during a number of interviews that she\u2019d grown up in awe of this confident woman with \u201cperoxide-blonde hair\u201d who wore tight clothes and red lipstick. Her mother had told her at the time that the woman was \u201ctrash,\u201d a \u201ctramp\u201d \u2014 but Parton said she\u2019d known immediately that was what she wanted to be when she grew up.\u201cI kind of patterned myself after what they called the town tramp in my hometown, when I was little,\u201d Parton explained to CBS anchor Julie Chen on \u201cThe Early Show\u201d in 2006. \u201cShe left a big impression on me, and I would talk about how beautiful she was and different ones would say, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s just trash.\u2019 And I thought, \u2018That\u2019s what I want to be when I grow up. I\u2019m gonna be trash!\u2019 And that is how I look.\u201dParton also said her flashy outward look was an attempt to match her flashy personality.But as flashy as she was, Parton never took herself too seriously \u2014 and routinely delivered self-deprecating quips about her flamboyant style and multiple cosmetic procedures.\u201cIt\u2019s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world,\u201d she said more than once \u2014 and she told The Guardian in 2011, \u201cIf something is bagging, sagging or dragging, I\u2019ll tuck it, suck it or pluck it \u2026 It\u2019s like what I always say: I may look fake but I\u2019m real where it counts.\u201dWhen asked how she still looked so young, she quipped, \u201cWell, good lighting, good doctors and good makeup.\u201dThe country music icon was 80 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"\nThe \u2018Dollyism\u2019 That Parton Joked Would Appear On Her Tombstone - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2642\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The \u2018Dollyism\u2019 That Parton Joked Would Appear On Her Tombstone - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Legendary country star Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, but she made a prediction more than four decades earlier about which one of her famous \u201cDolly-isms\u201d might show up on her tombstone.In 1982, while filming \u201cThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,\u201d Parton coined a phrase that she would repeat on numerous occasions \u2014 so often, in fact, that she told Vanity Fair 26 years later that she expected to see it on her headstone one day.The phrase in question? \u201cIt costs a lot of money to look this cheap.\u201dParton made no secret over the years that she\u2019d modeled her signature look after the town tramp \u2014 declaring during a number of interviews that she\u2019d grown up in awe of this confident woman with \u201cperoxide-blonde hair\u201d who wore tight clothes and red lipstick. 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