Ethel Waters Quotes
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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I'm the rogue Canadian in my family – I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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I was born to end up alone.
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Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
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It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.
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I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.
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Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.
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I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.
