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Ethel Merman

"I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people."

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"I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

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"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."

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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

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"I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird."
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"In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me."
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"I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old."
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"I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano."
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