Ethel Merman Quotes
I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I've lost way more projects than I've booked. I've learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects!
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There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives.
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The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.
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I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.
