All Ethel Merman Quotes
I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
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I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
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Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
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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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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.
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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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I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.
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Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
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Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
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