Quote by Ethel Waters
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save

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 wanted to be with the kind of people Id grown up with, but you cant go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. – Ethel Waters

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teen
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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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Future
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Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didnt live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me. – Ethel Waters

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mom
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My mom was tough. – Tiger Woods

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My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When youre a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year. – Mila Kunis

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I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. Im still a mommas girl at the heart of the situation. – Tori Spelling

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My mom and my stepdad are both therapists. – Jennifer Westfeldt

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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

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I have a strange relationship with time. Im not aware of it passing. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway

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