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 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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'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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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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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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I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
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I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
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Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification - itself something of a suspect notion.
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A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.'
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There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
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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.
