Ethel Merman Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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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.
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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.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
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I'm not a very organized person.
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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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.
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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.
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
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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.
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One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.
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Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses his own strength in the greatest emergency. Then what does he use? Simply the strength of his antagonist. The force of the enemy is the only means by which that enemy is overcome.
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Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
