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Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
American Musician
Born: Oct 31, 1896
Died: Sep 1, 1977
Been Big Me Mom Never People
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It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. Ethel Waters
Joy Big Mine Has-Been Both Over Look Been Yesterdays Aches Shoulder
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty. Ethel Waters
Hurt Plenty Been Reason Shy
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down. Ethel Waters
Smell Nothing Down Earth Sun Out Beat Dew Odor Goes Flowers
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. Ethel Waters
People Singing Outlet Emotional Had Always Blues
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. Ethel Waters
Work Mom Me Business Regret Money Long Live Enough Some Brought Only Never Share Never Quit She Comforts Quit Show Show Business
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners. Ethel Waters
People Think No Difference Browns Blacks More Between Southerners Difference Decided Whites Basically
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. Ethel Waters
Living Able Brow About Never Feel Making Been Undignified Anything Sweat Your
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade. Ethel Waters
Thought White Every Features Take Performance Gloves Audiences Prove Off Being Spade
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. Ethel Waters
You People Matter Try Teen Back Kind How Go Up Wanted Again Them Hard Grown Grown-Up
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. Ethel Waters
Life Men My Life Been Epic Epidemic Things Two
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. Ethel Waters
Never Outsider Felt Always Belonged
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. Ethel Waters
Work Impossible Pay Considered Someone Salary Want Again Asking
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. Ethel Waters
Me Noise Young White Dreaded Something Colored Annoyed Cheering Houses Years After Theaters Whistling Working Now
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. Ethel Waters
Medium Guide Indian See Mysterious Had Columbus Dropped Powers Friend Close Close Friend Ohio Whenever Who Her Played
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. Ethel Waters
Me Beer Glasses Big Down Compliment Drink Drinkers Had Come Know Came Move Sang Who
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. Ethel Waters
World Beat No-One Singer Fitzgerald Riff Ella Ella Fitzgerald
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. Ethel Waters
Time Big Other City Only New Been American York New York Big Time Miles Ever Philadelphia
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Ethel Waters
Other Virtues Faults Negroes Members Exactly Exactly The Same Same Human Human Beings Races Beings
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. Ethel Waters
Me Affection Desperately Out Something Prevents Tenderness Handing Want
I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever. Ethel Waters
Guess Once Through Never Idea Accepted Been Person Who Star Ever
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. Ethel Waters
Life My Life Something Instinctively Role Any Act Acting Based Why Play Technique

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