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Ethel Merman

"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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"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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"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

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"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip."

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"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

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"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."

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"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing."

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"But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team."

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"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

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"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."

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"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."

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"Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium."

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