American - Musician | October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
Ethel Waters
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
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In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
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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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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
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I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
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I never was a child.
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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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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.
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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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I am an isolationist.
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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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