Well yes, and no. The thing is, nobody is genuinely happy to drop what they're doing and have a nice chat with every random schmuck on Earth, no matter what's being interrupted or how much coffee they've had. So for Parton to be nice to everyone, everywhere... that's not so much genuine interest in people, as policy. Being nice to , everyone, all the time, under every circumstance takes an iron will and absolute determination to stick to the niceness, which isn't the same thing a genuine cheerfulness but it's highly admirable, and awesome to behold.
More entertainers should realize what a policy of being nice to people can do for their careers, but it's not easy. It's really not easy.
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4 years ago
Well of course she’s only human and certainly smart enough to know her brand and maintain a happy disposition. I think what makes her rather unique is her rise to stardom from actual poverty, not merely rags to riches, but proper dirt-poor beginnings where her family of 14 or so lived in a makeshift 1 bedroom cottage. That sort of introduction to the world would surely give you a unique perspective on fame when it arrives and keep you grounded, and I feel it has a lot to do with her unfailingly sunny outlook on life.
That said I make no excuses for my personal bias, being a lifelong massive fan of her and her music. I just feel there is a simplicity to her kindness that would be very difficult to fake and maintain over 60 years in the public eye. Either way, the way her appeal crosses all ages, faiths, political and moral viewpoints, creeds and sexualities makes her very special indeed. In my eyes at least.
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Otter (24464)
4 years ago
Yeah, she may be that nice as a choice, but you're right - she couldn't possibly be so good at being nice if she wasnt basically nice underneath all the artifice and professionalism! I could never do it, but then, I'm not basically nice, and neither are most people in showbiz.
Maybe she's genuinely grateful for what she has and what she's been able to do for others (her theme park brought hundreds of thousands of jobs to a backwoods area), and appreciates her public jn a way that most entertainers do not.
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4 years ago
I don’t know about that Otter, you seem pretty nice to me. Low bullshit threshold but then again Dolly herself wouldn’t suffer fools gladly, that doesn’t necessarily make a person nasty.
Yeah, another example of her giving spirit is her imagination library program
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
Fantastic initiative that makes a difference to many children around the world, and a rather selfless endeavour for a woman who never had children of her own.
The $1million she recently donated to the research efforts for a COVID-19 vaccine shouldn’t be sniffed at either. The list goes on...
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Otter (24464)
4 years ago
She's a good egg. I'm basically a good egg too, if I do say so myself, but I'm just too cynical and misanthropic to qualify as nice.
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