#in

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

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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

#between #blacks #browns #decided #difference

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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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'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 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

#business #comforts #enough #live #long

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

— Ethel Waters

#ella #ella fitzgerald #fitzgerald #riff #singer

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