Ethel Waters Quotes
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Women drive box office.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
