Ethel Merman Quotes
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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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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I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.
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What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.
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Who's happy these days?
