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Ethel Waters

"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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Donna Grant

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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Donna Grant

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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Ethel Waters
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

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Ethel Waters
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."

Dew

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Ethel Waters
"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."

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Ethel Waters
"Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again."

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Ethel Waters
"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."

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Ethel Waters
"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."

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Ethel Waters
"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."

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Ethel Waters
"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."

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Ethel Waters
"There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen."

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Ethel Waters
"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."

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