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Ethel Waters

"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."

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"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

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"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

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"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

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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."
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"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."
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"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
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"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
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"I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty."
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"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
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