Ethel Waters Quotes
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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I am not a good cue card reader.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.
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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
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Childhood
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I love any event in the United States because I treat it like it's my home, my house. And I'm going to protect it.
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Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.
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The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.
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What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
