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Ethel Waters

"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."

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"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."

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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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