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Ethel Waters

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

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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
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"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
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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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"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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"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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"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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