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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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"There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions."
Discipline
"Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square."
Music
"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame."
Character
"I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old."
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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."
Christmas
"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."
Gossip
"Everything's coming up roses - for me."
Roses
"I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words."
Care
"I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me."
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"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
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"With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically."
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"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."
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"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
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"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
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"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
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"My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood."
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