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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

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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. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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

— 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. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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

— Ethel Waters

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Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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