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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I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
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What I've learned is that love is made up of three ingredients: consideration, spontaneity, and [whispers] oral sex for guys and women.
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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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What we mustn't do is lose track of academic qualifications.
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You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
