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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

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Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

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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'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.

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I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

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You gotta have a gimmick.

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The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.

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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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When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

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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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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 beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

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At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

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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've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

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I take a breath when I have to.

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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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Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.

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Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

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I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

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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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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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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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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

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I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

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Who's happy these days?

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I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

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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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At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

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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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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

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

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Everything's coming up roses - for me.

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Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

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Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

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