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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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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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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I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
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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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I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
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You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.
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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.
