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Ethel Waters

"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."

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Donna Grant

"One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes."

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom."

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Donna Grant

"My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say."

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Donna Grant

"That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'"

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Donna Grant

"When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical."

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Donna Grant

"Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there."

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Donna Grant

"I know how to do anything, I'm a mom."

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Donna Grant

"If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay."

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Donna Grant

"I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'"

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Donna Grant

"Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese."

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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."

Time

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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
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."

Mom

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Ethel Waters
"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."

Inheritance

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

Business

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Ethel Waters
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."

Intelligence

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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."

Work

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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."

Life

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

Family

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

World

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