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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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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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 am not taking anything for granted.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
