To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
BETTE DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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