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


Eartha Kitt

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The audience has always been my best director.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I could feel it, I really could. It was like this was meant to be.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out ove...
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It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates yo...
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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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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where ...
EARTHA KITT
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't s...
EARTHA KITT
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
EARTHA KITT
We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain yo...
EARTHA KITT
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody...
EARTHA KITT
The public has become my fairy godmother.
EARTHA KITT
I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
EARTHA KITT
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITT
You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.
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The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me, ... And I give her tremend...
EARTHA KITT
I'm in and out of all the areas of the business. But of course the main thing is singing and acting.
EARTHA KITT
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had s...
EARTHA KITT
I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, ...
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I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.
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Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa.
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My aunt, or whoever it was, who brought me from the South, would have killed me, because she didn't ...
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Range Rover Saved Me from Injury
EARTHA KITT
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
EARTHA KITT
I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITT
I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honest...
EARTHA KITT
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it&#...
EARTHA KITT
Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITT
This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as i...
EARTHA KITT
I used to teach dance lessons.
EARTHA KITT
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be us...
EARTHA KITT
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is goi...
EARTHA KITT
I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITT
If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
EARTHA KITT
I have to keep testing myself.
EARTHA KITT
The audience has always been my best director.
EARTHA KITT
I love men and I like to get their attention.
EARTHA KITT
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
EARTHA KITT
I was a street dancer.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
EARTHA KITT
A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. S...
EARTHA KITT
I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, wi...
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When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing—in tune!—and th...
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We lay that way for a while, breathing together, watching the shadows flicker over the walls and eac...
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About everyone on staff helps out for trivia.
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Innocence could be lost more than once after all.
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Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
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I'm kind of used to it.
KITT FLOWERS
Last year I finished in the 20s. This has probably been my best season ever.
KITT FLOWERS
I kind of gave it away at the bottom of the pitch. I hit a bump, and got back, but lost my line.
KITT FLOWERS
This is the most intense week of preparation. Being here is important.
KITT BURROUGHS
It's getting word out enough to generate buzz and drum up enthusiasm.
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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It's the hardest by a long shot. You recalibrate yourself.
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