- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020