Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
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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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I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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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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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 firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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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.