Ethel Waters Quotes
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
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For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
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Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
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Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella
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Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, ... I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of.
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It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
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It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.
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Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Mind your P's and Q's.
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He was an amazing guy, really. Totally himself. Totally unapologetic about having all these different sides of his personality that didn’t quite mesh. He didn’t care what people saw, and at that moment, the envy was so powerful, I wanted to punch him in the face.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
