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" Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. "
Ice Cream
Chocolate
Me
" I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. "
Uniform
Myself
Dying
" If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. "
Nothing
Music
Done
" I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised. "
Every
Ever
Product
" I just can't read music. "
Just
Music
Read
" I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing. "
Hair
Fat
Sing
" I learn my songs by ear. "
Songs
Learn
Ear
" I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of. "
Work Hard
Hard Work
Singing
" In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed. "
Amazing
Years
Songs
" In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. "
Words
Mood
Music
" Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity. "
Intelligent
Intention
Sincerity
" I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. "
Always
Idea
Composer
" I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine. "
Audience
Mine
Sympathy
" It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight. "
Obvious
Weight
Carrying
" It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song. "
Song
Understand
Important
" It's up to the audience. It always has been. "
Up
Been
Audience
" I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me. "
Family
Everything
Me
" I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway. "
Always
Singing
Daydreaming
" Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. "
Submit
Without
Need
" Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women. "
Stability
Women
Work
" Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family. "
Family
Own
Friends And Family
" My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight. "
Me
Like
Singing
" Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women. "
Defeat
Society
Opinion
" Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously. "
Singing
Song
Years
" There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance. "
Stage
Second Chance
Chance
" This nation loves singing and loves acting. "
Singing
Acting
Nation
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