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It wasn't easy telling my family that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, 'Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?' She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed.


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KATE SMITH It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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KATE SMITH Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so lab...
KATE SMITH An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or ot...
KATE SMITH Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form o...
KATE SMITH I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at b...
KATE SMITH I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.
KATE SMITH I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would ta...
KATE SMITH I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached the...
KATE SMITH I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what....
KATE SMITH It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can ...
KATE SMITH In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances t...
KATE SMITH I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
KATE SMITH Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is...
KATE SMITH This nation loves singing and loves acting.
KATE SMITH Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had s...
KATE SMITH Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
KATE SMITH My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
KATE SMITH Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and famil...
KATE SMITH There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
KATE SMITH Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do ...
NATHANIEL SMITH May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
NATHANIEL SMITH