Ethel Merman Quotes
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'
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I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.
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God's help, the love of the people, the strength of Denmark.
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I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin...My shorts were getting a little tight.
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I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.
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Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
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I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.
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Walk up and down the stairs ten times a day. Do an hour's walking. Release toxins just so that you feel happy. Drink a lot of water; sleep on time.
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I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.
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Who's happy these days?
