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At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
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If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.
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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
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Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them
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When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
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I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame
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Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
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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.
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
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When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest
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I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes
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[They say I] can hold a note as long as the Chase Manhattan Bank.
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand
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I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?
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The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now
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I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old
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I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals
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Broadway has been very good to me. But I've been very good to Broadway, too.
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When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don't show up, they can just forget it.
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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.
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Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most
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I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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Ethel Merman
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Born:
January 16, 1908
Died:
February 15, 1984
(aged 76)
Bio:
Ethel Merman was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage."
Known for:
Call Me Madam (1953)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Airplane! (1980)
We're Not Dressing (1934)
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