Ethel Waters Quotes
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.
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The will of the people is the best law.
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We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.
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And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin their stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stopped. They refuseto be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
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I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.
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I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.
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I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
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When you think of natural ballplayers, only two come into mind, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays.
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Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God trust Him more deeply than those whose complacent faith permits an abstract and motionless stance before Him. Those who trust God most are those whose faith permits them to risk wrestling with Him over the deepest questions of life. Good hearts are captured in a divine wrestling match; fearful, doubting hearts stay clear of the mat.
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There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
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It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
