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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

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I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world. ↗

— Gedde Watanabe

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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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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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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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I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age. ↗

— Muddy Waters

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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. ↗

— Sam Waterston

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Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen. ↗

— Doc Watson

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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ↗

— Emily Watson

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