Ethel Waters Quotes
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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Trump is a systemic stress test.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
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This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR
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Battles are followed by years of famine.
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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
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As the Chinese grew in numbers, the immigrant population grew to the extent that it became a huge economic threat, there were efforts among white workers to organize among themselves politically, and what was unfortunate was that both major parties adopted anti-Chinese platforms.
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First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.
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Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.
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I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.
