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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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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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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What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.
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We can't have Donald Trump in the White House.
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Arrogance is only bad when you lose. If you are winning and you are arrogant it is self-belief.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
