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

• Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Good
  • Live
  • Money

• I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Think
  • Color
  • White

• Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Christmas
  • Laughter
  • Neighbors

• Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Moment

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

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Attention
  • Deliver