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Ethel Waters Quotes

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977

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Childhood Me Mom Influence Lust She

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

Time Humor Chance Think I Can Ahead

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Small Reading More Bedroom Whatever

I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.

Love Theatre Think Feel You Know

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Power Over Get Possess

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Art Does Exploit

I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.

Life Failure Goals Character Window

Iran's goal is to gain control of the Two Holy Mosques.

Mohammad bin Salman

Control Goal Two Gain Holy Iran

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Family Love Great Romantic Child

By acknowledging, accepting, and embracing our dark side, we create natural steam vents within ourselves. By providing an opening, we eliminate the worry about an explosion because we are allowing the pressure to be released in a safe and appropriate way.

Pressure Worry Dark Create Dark Side

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

Home Time Me Game Professional Run

I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.

Constance Zimmer

Live Daily New York Door New Kind

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

Beauty Light Space Small House Air

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