"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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"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.“
-Ethel Merman
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