Ethel Merman Quotes

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

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• There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

  

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• We became the songs we wrote.

  

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• After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

  

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• Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

  

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• George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

  

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• You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.

  

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• No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

  

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• When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.

  

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• Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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• “I just make music. — The music I make, I make for myself,” he continued, “I’m the number one guy for me to please.” He is not one to force a track into a specific genre and would never create a record with the intentions of critical reception. “Sometimes 10 million people love what I do, sometimes 500 do… I have massive hits with some tracks, and some other tracks have stayed in the underground.”

  

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• I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

  

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• “When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows.”

  

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• I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.

  

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• A lot of times, guys are just out there playing and they'll just go and get you. I don't really think they're thinking about the helmet-to-helmet contact. You'll probably see a lot of players more hesitant before they make their hits.

  

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• I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.

  

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• One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

  

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• I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

  

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• Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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• In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

  

  Michael Behe
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• Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

  

  Ethel Merman
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