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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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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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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As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. – Johnny Depp

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Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head. – Justin Timberlake

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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didnt see otherwise. – Wayne Kramer

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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. – John F. Kennedy

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