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I Preferred Delivering My Performance In Person. I Liked To Be In Control. You Couldn't Be In Films.

Always Give Them The Old Fire, Even When You Feel Like A Squashed Cake Of Ice.

I Wasn't Straining At The Bit To Become A Movie Star Any More Than I Had Plotted To Get Out Of Vaudeville And Into Broadway Musicals

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.

The Only Things I Read Are Gossip Columns. If I Read Three Pages Of A Book, I'm Out Like A Light. When I Pick Up The Book Again, I've Forgotten What I've Read And Have To Start Over Again. By Page Three, Even If I've Just Awakened From A Nine -hour Nap, I Fall Asleep Again. So If Anyone Gives Me A Book, It Had Better Have Lots Of Pictures.