#at

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#about #anything #been #brow #feel

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

— Ethel Waters

#childhood #drinking #greatest #influence #lust

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#ella #ella fitzgerald #fitzgerald #riff #singer

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

#being #every #features #gloves #i

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

— Ethel Waters

#business #great #show #show business #supply

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. ↗

— John Waters

#catholic #dirty #god #i #i was raised

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#business #career #determines #fate #hand

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it. ↗

— John Waters

#i wish #maybe #me #something #then

This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#concerned #far #frightened #game #go

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#cake #christmas #eat #got #i