Ethel Merman Quotes
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
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I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
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You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.
