Ethel Merman Quotes
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I love writing songs.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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I feel very lucky.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.
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Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.
