Ethel Waters Quotes
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
Quotes to Explore
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
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On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.
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It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.
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Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
