Ethel Merman Quotes
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.
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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
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The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.
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If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
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Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
