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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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I look for the John Proctor who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!
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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
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There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
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They use their minds to create wealth—not by taking existing materials and turning them into more valuable goods, but by taking existing wealth and putting it toward more valuable uses. In short, financiers don’t create the products that enrich our lives—they help create (and nurture) all the businesses that create the products that enrich our lives.
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I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.
