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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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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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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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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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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It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.
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With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.
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Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
