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Ethel Merman Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984

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Today Me Just Theater Few Popular

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

John Desmond Bernal

Memory Present Anticipation Limit

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Good Start Grow Learn Actor Because

Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.

Learning Challenge Language Wear How

Playing a best of five-set match, you can always bounce back, even if you lose the first set.

Best You Lose Back First Always

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

Sun Moon Language Talk Solar System

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

Stokely Carmichael

Time I Am People Me Black Place

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

Together New York People Vegas You

I got sick of trying everything. I tried every single thing imaginable - diet, exercise. I even bought a house on the health spa property, and I still gained weight.

Lisa Lampanelli

Health Sick Diet Exercise House

I liked being home playing in front of my people, but I just did not like the situation because I was playing shooting guard, and that is not my position. I would play it if someone like Rip got hurt, but to do it for an entire season, that is not my position. I got it done when I was asked to do. But inside, I know that is not me.

Chauncey Billups

Home People Me Hurt Someone Play

I am convinced that the Obama administration and Clinton Dynasty would rather hail the Communist Manifesto than the Declaration of Independence this Fourth of July. And there's more than enough proof to show how they have been slow-cooking our Founders' republic into a red-star state like China.

I Am Independence Enough More China

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

Love Passion Daughter Day Soul She

In a collaborator, I always look for someone who's going to push me a little bit.

Brian Stelfreeze

Me Push Someone Look Always Little

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