Ethel Merman Quotes
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
Frances McDormand -
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
Earl Weaver -
About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
Dan Hicks -
Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
Cara Black -
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust -
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
Ted Rall
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Abraham Maslow -
I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
Jack Nicklaus -
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
Cab Calloway -
Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good.
J. R. Martinez -
I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
Barry Sloane -
I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Yakov Smirnoff
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If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.
Kat Graham -
Freddie Aguilar, who's billed as 'the Bob Dylan of the Philippines.' This is unfair, since he's good-looking, plays the guitar well, can carry a tune, and writes songs that make sense.
P. J. O'Rourke -
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight -Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Clement Clarke Moore -
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Bertrand Russell -
Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me 'Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?' And I say 'Good God, I hope not!'
Morrissey The Smiths -
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Elijah Wood -
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Vernor Vinge -
I believe firmly in God's control in life.
Charles R. Swindoll -
I always wanted to play characters, and that was definitely one - a Russian spy.
Lucas Till -
Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
Ethel Merman