Eartha Kitt Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

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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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

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I used to teach dance lessons.

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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

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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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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

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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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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.

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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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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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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

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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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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

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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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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

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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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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

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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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The audience has always been my best director.

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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

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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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I was a street dancer.

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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. 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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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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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

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