Quotes by Ethel Waters - Page 2

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Able
Book
Inspired
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What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Mom
Children
Heart
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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Able
Credit
Understood
Bring
Gave
Problems
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Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Asking
Impossible
Salary
Want
Considered
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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Evangelism
Frenzy
Mother
Release
Me Mother Things
Somehow
Transferred
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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 / Vocalist
Acting
Play
Technique
Act
Life My Life Acting
Why
Based
Instinctively
My Life
Role
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When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Pay
People
Privilege
Time People Will
Dominate
Emotions
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My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Kids
Aunt
Eating
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I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Jobs
Judging
Outsiders
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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.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Mom
Childhood
Drinking
Influence
Lust
Mom Childhood Me
Save
Vice
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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.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Bored
Fun
Lonely
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Family
Mom
Importance
Love You
Mother
Love Family Mom
Love Mom Mother
Job
Love Family Mother
Greatest
Greatest Importance
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Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Columbus
Indian
Mohawks
Mysterious
Ohio
Close Friend
Dropped
Guide
Medium
Powers
Whenever
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I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Inspirational
Teen
Hard
Matter
People
Teenager
Wanted
Go
Again
Try
Back
Them
How
Grown
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Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Decided
Differences
Thinking
Yellow
People More Think
Basically
Blacks
Browns
Difference
No Difference
Southerners
Whites
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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Success
Play
Reassuring
Thinking
Depend
Entire
Though
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Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Business
Mom
Never Quit
Regret
Share
Show Business
Work Business Money
Brought
Comforts
Quit
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The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Features
Gloves
Prove
Spades
White
Audiences
Performance
Spade
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Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Girl
House
Long
Years
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In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Mom
Dollars
Five
Husband
Life Is Hard
Six
Week
Earned
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I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Fog
Frightened
Shock
Treatment
Used
Love Death Me
Loved
Directing
Ford
John
Pictures
To Love
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I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Men
Gang
Sleep
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The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Beer
Compliment
Drinkers
Glasses
Moving
Sang
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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
Ethel Waters / Vocalist
Fear
Annoyed
Cheer
Noise
Whistling
Years
Cheering
Colored
Dreaded
Houses
Theaters
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