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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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 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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I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
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Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.
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Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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We didn't play soft. There were a lot of fouls called. Some that we weren't used to and some that I haven't seen in my whole life.
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I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
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The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.
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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.
