"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame"

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Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

Ethel Merman

#Character Quotes #Dames Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.”
“Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.”
“I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.”
“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.”
“I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding”
“I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm”
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.”
“What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.”

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