Ethel Waters Quotes
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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I want every Grammy.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.
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Learn to distance yourself from the criticism.
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My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
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To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
