Bette Davis Quotes
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
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I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'
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Your luck is how you treat people.
