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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My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.
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I knew what it was at last-the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.
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I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
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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.
