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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.


Ethel Merman

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VIDAL SASSOON We begin to learn wisely when we're willing
to see world from other people's perspective.
TOBA BETA

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ETHEL MERMAN Everything's coming up roses - for me.
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ETHEL MERMAN At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
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ETHEL MERMAN I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair ...
ETHEL MERMAN I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
ETHEL MERMAN The World Is Your Balloon: The Decca Singles 1950-1951.
ETHEL MERMAN I take a breath when I have to.
ETHEL MERMAN Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
ETHEL MERMAN I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
ETHEL MERMAN You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best
ETHEL MERMAN Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to Broadway.
ETHEL MERMAN I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here...
ETHEL MERMAN Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
ETHEL MERMAN But Not For Me.
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ETHEL MERMAN My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
ETHEL MERMAN When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
ETHEL MERMAN I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast...
ETHEL MERMAN Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
ETHEL MERMAN When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
ETHEL MERMAN Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
ETHEL MERMAN I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.
ETHEL MERMAN I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just bec...
ETHEL MERMAN I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it wa...
ETHEL MERMAN You gotta have a gimmick.
ETHEL MERMAN I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
ETHEL MERMAN Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
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ETHEL WATERS You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think n...
ETHEL WATERS When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh-at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who...
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE The best time to make friends is before you need them.
ETHEL BARRYMORE When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally...
ETHEL BARRYMORE We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
ETHEL BARRETT You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The food is unreal, it doesn't tast...
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grac...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
ETHEL WATERS Introspection! I hate it!
ETHEL KENNEDY We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
ETHEL WATERS Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious p...
ETHEL WATERS We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big ...
ETHEL WATERS When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and h...
ETHEL WATERS The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or mo...
ETHEL WATERS After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistlin...
ETHEL WATERS We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou...
ETHEL ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
ETHEL ANDRUS What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.
ETHEL ANDRUS Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind
ETHEL ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL ANDRUS Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun ...
ETHEL WATERS Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
ETHEL MUMFORD God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL MUMFORD New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever ...
ETHEL WATERS No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
ETHEL WATERS Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, w...
ETHEL WATERS We all must pay the price to be our genuine selves.
ETHEL RUSSELL None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.
ETHEL TURNER Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit f...
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ETHEL BARRYMORE At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment,...
ETHEL ROSENBERG I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from h...
ETHEL WATERS Pinky.
ETHEL WATERS St. Louis Blues.
ETHEL WATERS You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job righ...
ETHEL WATERS It's saved many a guy from wives, girlfriends, whatever.
ETHEL SHATFORD The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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ETHEL BARRYMORE Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Deep Are the Roots.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
ETHEL WATERS There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
ETHEL WATERS All the moms, and dads, and kids, and grandparents - everybody helps.
ETHEL GROSSMAN We have big serving lines in the kitchen. They fill your plate and they take it out, and you never k...
ETHEL GROSSMAN We order the meat [in advance] because it has to be kosher.
ETHEL GROSSMAN It used to be a buffet, but that would take forever now.
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ETHEL BARRYMORE Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire f...
ETHEL WATERS The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I...
ETHEL WATERS Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in ...
ETHEL ROSENBERG A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
ETHEL WILSON It's a young man's game, a single man's game.
ETHEL SHATFORD Those Were the Good Old Days.
ETHEL ROSENBERG We are innocent... To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of l...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps ther...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party.
ETHEL ROSENBERG I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.
ETHEL ROSENBERG The condition of my child was very poor.
ETHEL ROSENBERG I never heard any such conversation.
ETHEL ROSENBERG Behind every man who achieves success, Stands a mother, a wife and the IRS
ETHEL JACOBSON Kosher means clean. Kosher meat is butchered in a very special way so that the animal doesn't suffer...
ETHEL GROSSMAN It can be stressful - you listen to one sad, bad, situation - sometimes one after the other.
ETHEL FITZPATRICK Lots of time, you pray a lot and you cry a lot because you're hoping you're trying to do the right t...
ETHEL BUSSMAN There are people who come in who don't know what they would have done if they hadn't come in.
ETHEL BUSSMAN She heard through somebody else that I had experience, and I wasn't even looking for a job.
ETHEL BUSSMAN That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the...
ETHEL POCHOCKI You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
ETHEL WATERS Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the mo...
ETHEL WATERS There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
ETHEL WATERS I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn...
ETHEL WATERS Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drink...
ETHEL WATERS My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
ETHEL WATERS Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
ETHEL WATERS I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
ETHEL WATERS All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
ETHEL WATERS I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and ...
ETHEL WATERS I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
ETHEL WATERS The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, i...
ETHEL KENNEDY I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD In the midst of life we are in debt.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and...
DAME ETHEL SMYTH The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literatur...
DAME ETHEL SMYTH All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew ...
ETHEL LYNN BEERS Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD The greatest possession is Self-possession
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Knowledge is power if you know about the right person
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD What could our worst enemy do to damage this strong and beautiful country? He could do no better tha...
ETHEL GRODZINS ROMM The greatest possession is self-possession.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on...
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