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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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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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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"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
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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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"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
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"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
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"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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"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
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"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
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"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."
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"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
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