Bette Davis Quotes
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
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I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.