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Ethel Merman

"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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"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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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

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"There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with."

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"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."

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"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs."

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"They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger."

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"My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records."

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"A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop."

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"If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts."

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"There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times."

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"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."

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"If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill."
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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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"I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people."
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"There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman."
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"My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be."
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"I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time."
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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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"I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films."
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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."
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"I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird."
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