Dolly Parton is burning up, not burning out
Worklife with Adam Grant
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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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As we get ready for 2023, we’re excited to bring you a conversation Adam had earlier this year with beloved musician Dolly Parton. Adam talks with Dolly about her creative process, how she balances getting things right with getting things done, and how she manages the hefty cup of ambition she pours herself each morning. Her latest project, “Run, Rose, Run” is both a novel coauthored with James Patterson and a full-length companion album. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/T4G26
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Worklifers, it's Adam Grant. |
| 0:05.0 | Today I'm excited to bring you a conversation I had on Clubhouse with a legend. |
| 0:09.5 | Thanks to our sponsors, LinkedIn, Morgan Stanley, ServiceNow, and UKG for making it possible. |
| 0:15.7 | Joining me today is the one and only Dolly Parton musician, business woman, actor, author, |
| 0:29.4 | humanitarian, one of the greatest songwriters and most beloved humans in this galaxy. |
| 0:36.1 | Well, thank you so much. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm happy to be with you. |
| 0:38.7 | Thanks for all those compliments. |
| 0:40.1 | I don't think I deserve all that. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm pretty sure you've earned them all, and it's an honor to have you here. |
| 0:46.9 | So I'm very excited to talk about your new book and your album, but I just want to start |
| 0:52.1 | with a quote of yours that I loved, Dolly, which is, you once said, after you reach a certain |
| 0:57.2 | age, they think you're over. |
| 0:59.4 | Well, I will never be over. |
| 1:01.2 | I'd love to hear more about that. |
| 1:03.6 | What keeps you motivated at this stage in your career to keep writing and working? |
| 1:07.2 | Well, first of all, I loved the music. |
| 1:09.2 | I was born to be a singer and a songwriter, and it was a song that brought me out of the |
| 1:14.6 | Smokey Mountains to Nashville. |
| 1:16.4 | It was a song that has taken me everywhere I want to go and out of that song, so many |
| 1:21.5 | wonderful things have branched out for me. |
| 1:24.4 | Even if I had never made it in the business, I would have continued to do my music, because |
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