Creative Quotations from Ethel Merman (1909-1984)

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Ethel Merman
(1909-1984) born on Jan 16

US singer, actor. She starred in more than a dozen Broadway musicals including "Annie Get Your Gun," 1946 and "Hello Dolly," 1970.

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She's OK if you like talent.

I take a breath when I have to.

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

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

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.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	On her friend Mary Martin; In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
R:	In "Time," 27 Feb 1984.
A:	From an Internet collection of quotations.
N:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
K:	"Woman's Almanac."