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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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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 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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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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 believe one should be a woman at home.
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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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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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You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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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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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.
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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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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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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.