Ethel Waters Quotes
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.Ethel Waters
Quotes to Explore
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Ira Sachs -
For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
Hanna Rosin -
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
Pat Benatar -
A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
Taya Kyle -
The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
Gavin Hood
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I don't have business with any politicians.
Carlos Slim -
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 -
Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
Hale Irwin -
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
Patricia Polacco -
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
Jackie DeShannon -
Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
Nathan Parsons
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
J. C. Watts -
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
Valerie June -
We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
Rachel Joyce -
We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
Barack Obama -
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
Ian Thorpe
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
Sam Claflin -
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
Tadashi Yanai -
Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!
Sam Smith -
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
Little Richard -
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
Ben Bernanke -
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
Ethel Waters