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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."

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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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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."

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"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."

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"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."

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"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."

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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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"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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"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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"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
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"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
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"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
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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."
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