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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Wealth hung awkwardly on some people, gave rise to perversions of taste and common sense: fad diets and Tae Bo and shit-in-milk-jug art exhibits. Some people were better off poor.
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I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
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You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.
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By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.
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Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."
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Who's happy these days?
