Ethel Waters Quotes
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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Monks throng like a kennel of pups from disputing with the masters who instruct them whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour.
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She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C. is a small town, and most everyone knows most everyone else. That person of the other party who you despise will someday be at your daughter's birthday party.
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I sat down by a little brook, unpacked my Swiss cheese, and that darn tune popped into my head!
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When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.
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Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
