I’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
EARTHA KITTIn essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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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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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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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
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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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