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

Ethel Merman

Conflict

Deep

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

Ethel Merman

Mom

Will

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

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.

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

Ethel Merman

Regret

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

Ethel Merman

Attention

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

Ethel Merman

Now

Talk

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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People

Want

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Ethel Merman

First

Songs

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

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Business

Succeed

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

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

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

Ethel Merman

Time

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

Ethel Merman

Work

Want

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

Ethel Merman

Trust

Man