Ethel Merman Quotes

Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

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• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Certain
  • Scenes

• I'm marriable. But I'm not married.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Married

• I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Universe

• I'm not a very organized person.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Person
  • Very
  • Organized

• The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Eyes
  • Angels
  • Nurses

• I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Trying
  • Living
  • Biology

• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Art
  • Understanding

• You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star treatment like that. I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Live
  • Know
  • Star

• Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.

  

  Karl Marx

• I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don't know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I'll know one day soon.

  

  Mary Pierce
  • Why
  • Career

• If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Understanding

• A Jewish convert said to me once, 'The Communists hate God, and the Catholics love Him. But they are both facing Him, directing their attention to Him. They are not indifferent. Communists are not in so bad a case as those who are indifferent. It is the lukewarm that He will spew out of His mouth.'

  

  Dorothy Day
  • God
  • Bad
  • Hate

• If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • World
  • Long
  • Dream

• Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Attention
  • Deliver