Ethel Waters Quotes

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

Ethel Waters

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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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Confidence
  • Preparation

• 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.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Identity
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Year
  • Round

• I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Day
  • Breakfast
  • Eating

• Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Interesting
  • Universe
  • Dark

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Most
  • Failed
  • Some

• 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?

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Night
  • Know
  • Mystery

• 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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Think
  • Best
  • Politics

• Trump is a systemic stress test.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Trump
  • Stress

• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Criticize

• 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.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Writing
  • Learning

• This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Giving
  • Persons
  • Liberality

• 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

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Question

• In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

  

  Jurgen Klopp
  • Football
  • Special
  • Liverpool

• As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Movies

• I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Dresses
  • Necessary
  • Businesses