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I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

Eartha Kitt

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Eartha Kitt
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 17
Died: 2008
Died: December 25
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Voice Actor
North
South Carolina
Eartha Mae Keith
Eartha Mae Kitt
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Three
Littles
Little
Nominated
Prove
Paper
Pieces

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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'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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I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.
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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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.
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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've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.
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I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year!
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