I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITTDon’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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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 have to keep testing myself.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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We’re not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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