Ethel Waters Quotes

I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Solution
  • Capacity
  • Middle

• Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Shows
  • Fortunate

• I've seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I've dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I've had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn't very ignorant because I've seen a lot.

  

  Wale
  • Women
  • Celebrity
  • Shows

• No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Influence
  • Middle
  • Iran

• If I am comfortable with my co-star, then that always shows in my performances.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Shows
  • Comfortable
  • Co-Star

• Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Shows
  • Started
  • Modeling

• I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

  

  Donnie Iris
  • Inspiration
  • Shows

• Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • True
  • Gay
  • Color

• Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Funny

• Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Fun
  • High
  • Practice

• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Audience

• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • American
  • Mean

• There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Baby
  • Shows

• I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Lost
  • Shows

• Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Struggle

• What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Good
  • Music
  • Fun

• The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Then said a Second - 'Ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy, And He that with his hand the Vessel made Will surely not in after Wrath destroy'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Joy
  • Boy

• He's moved on. It's time for the fans to move on.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Fans

• It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.

  

  Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
  • Write
  • Fans
  • Songs

• I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

  

  Rebecca Wells
  • Writing
  • Watch
  • Challenging

• I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Shows
  • Middle