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.
Eartha KittRead
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.
Interpretation
The speaker feels a deep connection with their fans, seeing them as a surrogate family.
Eartha Kitt expresses her feelings of being an orphan and finding solace and belonging in her relationship with her fans. She views her supporters as her family, illustrating the profound bond that can exist between a performer and their audience, transcending traditional family structures.
In practice
During a speech at a fan convention, I would quote this to emphasize the importance of fan support.
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.
Itβs all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says youβre entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.
I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.
I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy.
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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