Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
EARTHA KITTHaving my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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