I have to keep testing myself.
EARTHA KITTJust because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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