Ethel Merman Quotes
The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.
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I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.
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I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.
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I once had a gig in Gothenburg and went on the most unbelievable theme park ride, which was a rollercoaster built into a mountain that went through plants and tunnels. It was huge and a thrill to go on.
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The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.
