Ethel Waters Quotes
I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.
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It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
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Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
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I will always eat pizza! Always.
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Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."
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In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.
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I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.
