Ethel Waters Quotes
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator.
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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
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That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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We are a big family; we are all very close, and we always want to talk about what is going on with each other.
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My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.
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These policies include making tax relief permanent, reducing the budget deficit by limiting spending, strengthening retirement and health security through efforts like Social Security reform ... and enhancing energy security.
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
