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Ethel Waters Biography

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, but she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Waters notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of the spiritual "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American, after Hattie McDaniel, to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African-American to star on her own television show, in 1939, and the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award, in 1962.

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When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

Dominate, Heavily, Pay, People, Privilege, Time

I had always loved John Ford's 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.

Fog, Frightened, Pictures, Shock, Treatment, Used

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

Greatest, Importance, Mother, Persons

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

Enclose, Hotels, Made, Reservations, Set, Writing

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

Business, Show, Shows, Undertaker, Undertakers

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

Brought, Business, Mom, Quit, Regret, Share

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

Born, Brought, Nobody, Wedlock

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

Able, Book, Divinely, Inspired, Read, Wondered

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Epic, Epidemics, Life, Men, Things

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Acting, Play, Role, Technique

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

Beer, Bottles, Couple, Giving, Sober

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

Enough, Liked, Man, Men, Saint

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

Afford, Clothes, Dressed, Partners, Spending

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

Judgment, Leave, Miss, Missing, Quit, Quitting

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.

Cheer, Fear, Whistling, Years, Young

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

Asking, Boosted, Impossible, Pay, Salary, Want

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Criticize, People, Praise

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Hell, Hypocrisy, Kitchen

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

Columbus, Indian, Mohawk, Mohawks, Mysterious, Ohio

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Day, Good, May, News, Phones, Ring

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