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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

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Donna Grant

"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."

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Donna Grant

"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."

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Donna Grant

"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

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Donna Grant

"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."

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Donna Grant

"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

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Donna Grant

"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."

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Donna Grant

"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."

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Donna Grant

"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."

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Donna Grant

"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."

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

Business

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

Life

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

Hell

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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."

Houses

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Ethel Waters
"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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Ethel Waters
"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."

Death

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