Ethel Waters Quotes
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
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Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.
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I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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I grew up playing a lot of R&B music, and I wanted to do a very R&B type song. And I like the 'nah-nah-nahs'. I always wanted a song with those in.
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When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
