Ethel Waters Quotes
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I've felt ugly and insecure.
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I always felt an outsider.
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Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.
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Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
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Ten years in this job is a really long time. These are tough assignments. I'm pleased I'm leaving in an amicable, civilized, mutually respectful way. Leslie felt it was time for a change and so did I.
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I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.
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My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
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A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.
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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
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I have to allow his judgment. He felt like he could do that at that time.
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all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
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I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.
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I'm seeing myself as an outsider a little bit - definitely when I started the band. I knew what band's name meant and nobody else really did, so I'd be on stage every night and say, "Hello, we're Art Brut" - basically saying that we were rejects. But I mean, I didn't really sing, it did feel a bit like we were outsiders. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek when I first named the band that, but then we slowly turned into that - like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
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Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.
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Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for perpetual study. I think in Nigeria, it is the potential which hits people and makes them believe in Nigeria. It tends to make them react when they see potentials being wasted and it is a tragedy to see potentials wasted. But paradoxically, it is a realization of the existence, that positive, that keeps many Nigerians and even foreign people going.
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I've learned that if you see something that's incredible, move on it quickly.
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I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
