Ethel Waters Quotes
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
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Everything looked utterly normal, exactly as Thalia had expected save for the absence of a rampaging mob.
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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
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I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.
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I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail.
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If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
