Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISIt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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 never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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