Bette Davis Quotes
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
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I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.