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Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.
Ethel Merman -
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
Ethel Merman
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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.
Ethel Merman -
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
Ethel Merman -
In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.
Ethel Merman -
Everything's coming up roses - for me.
Ethel Merman