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...Tennessee, Dolly exclaimed, "Just think, I am Dr. Dolly. When people say something about 'double D,' they will be talking of something entirely different!" But behind the scenes, Parton has quietly, without fanfare, been giving back big-time through her charitable activities. Her Imagination Library gives free books to children in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. - to the tune of some 20 million books a year. Parton has written her own children's book, I Am a Rainbow (Putnam), which will be part of that program as well. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with Parton at Dollywood...
TIME: Why did you decide to write a children's book? Parton: 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. It's really about us all having these colors, and it's O.K. to have them, but it's learning how to deal with them and what to do with them. It's a sweet little book done in rhyme. I hope...
...ever get tired of performing? No, I love performing. I think that eventually I'll be doing a lot of work with the children's thing. I'm trying to develop a children's show, and hopefully that will be done out of Dollywood, and I will be doing lots of DVDs and a lot of children's CDs and that sort of thing. I'm really enjoying working on the kids' things. It kind of keeps you young. I still hope to make more records and do more movies if I get any good projects. I just kind...
...love the ideals of my parents - going back to the land to grow their own food and raise children. The problem is that rural areas can be very lonely, isolating places. There's not necessarily a sense of community. In the city, people all have different backgrounds and they can share that information and wisdom. The owner of a liquor store down the street used to be a goat farmer in Yemen; I can run down and say, "Hey, does my goat look okay...
...century, Hussein and a band of fewer than 100 people, including women and children, took on the mighty Umayyad dynasty in Karbala, an ancient city in Mesopotamia now in modern-day Iraq. They knew they would be massacred...