Ethel Merman Quotes
I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.
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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
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Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.
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I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
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I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.
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Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
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Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.
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The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.
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I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing.
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'
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I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.
