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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis

You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Yourself
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVIS

Disappointment Failure Success
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Person Yourself
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Expense Happiness Lose
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Appearance Relax
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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Character Difficult Success
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Age Couple
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Heart People
I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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Boy Interest Myself See Woman
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Hollywood Important Legs
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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End Fame Ourselves Stars
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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Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Believe Children Myself Parents
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Commitment Humanity Love Religion
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

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