Bette Davis Quotes
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
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I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.
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...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
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...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.
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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.
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A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
