Quote by Ethel Waters
I wanted to be with the kind of people Id grown up with, but you c

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

Other quotes by Ethel Waters

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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Death
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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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mom
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We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. – Ethel Waters

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mom
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. – G. Stanley Hall

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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out its a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them. – Maggie Stiefvater

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teen

Im pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. Its so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and youre like, Oy! Its the same thing again! – Marla Sokoloff

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teen

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. – Dave Barry

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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. – Jaron Lanier

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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. – Joan of Arc

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