Ethel Merman Quotes
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
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Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very complicated from a lighting standpoint. An example is a starship flying through an environment that's constantly changing.
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Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
