My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISTo 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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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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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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