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.

Ethel Waters

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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!

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Going
  • Big
  • Most

• 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.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Live
  • Expectations

• 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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Process

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• 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.'

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Want
  • Seriously

• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
  • More
  • I Can
  • Strengths

• 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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Job
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• 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.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Book
  • Man

• I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Customer

• Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • People
  • Death
  • Songs

• My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Father
  • Game
  • Gambling

• 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!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Body

• If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • World
  • Live
  • Trying

• Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Survival

• I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

  

  Luke Evans
  • God
  • Thinking
  • School

• Since I've stopped drinking I'm way better at singing. I can project my voice better. I can actually walk on stage and make eye contact with the audience, which I never used to know how to do in the past. So, it's made a huge difference for me.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Past
  • Singing
  • Drinking

• I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Learning

• If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Fun
  • Lonely
  • Bored