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Been Quotes by Ethel Waters
- I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
- I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
- I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
- It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
- All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
- All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
- New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
- I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
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