Quote by Ethel Waters
I had always loved John Fords pictures. And I came to love him, to

I had always loved John Fords pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. – 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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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. – Ethel Waters

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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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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld

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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. – Yitzhak Rabin

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American Horror goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience – Flowers in the Attic paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like Lets Scare Jessica to Death. It even has Go Ask Alice-era urban legends. – Rob Sheffield

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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. – Vladimir Nabokov

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True strength is delicate. – Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. – John Newcombe

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Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it. – Dionne Warwick

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