Bette Davis Quotes
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
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Unless you're involved in the system of coercive force, with money alone you don't get power.
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What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.
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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
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There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.
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You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
