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Ethel Merman

"I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes."

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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

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"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

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"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

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"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

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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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"When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest."
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"I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?"
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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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"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."
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"I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words."
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"At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first."
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"I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint."
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