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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.Bette Davis
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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.Bette Davis
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.Bette Davis
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.Bette Davis
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.Bette Davis
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If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.Bette Davis
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.Bette Davis
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Old age ain't no place for sissies.Bette Davis
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.Bette Davis
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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and like vampires they suck our life’s blood.Bette Davis
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There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.Bette Davis
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In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a starBette Davis
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.Bette Davis
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.Bette Davis
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A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.Bette Davis
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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.Bette Davis
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.Bette Davis
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.Bette Davis
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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.Bette Davis
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.Bette Davis
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Old age is no place for sissies.Bette Davis
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I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.Bette Davis
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.Bette Davis
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.Bette Davis
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.Bette Davis
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This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.Bette Davis
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.Bette Davis
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I work to stay alive.Bette Davis
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I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.Bette Davis
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.Bette Davis
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.Bette Davis
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.Bette Davis
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.Bette Davis
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.Bette Davis
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.Bette Davis
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I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.Bette Davis
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.Bette Davis