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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

Bette Davis

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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Care Children Family Hate Love
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Age Couple
I will never be below the title.
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Confidence Myself Title Worth
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Night Yourself
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Character Myself
Getting old is not for sissies.
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Age Old
There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Hell One Way Way
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Brain Enemy Myself Thinking
Strong women only marry weak men.
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Man Strong Weakness Women
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Enemy Fire Hate Help
Success only breeds a new goal
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Born Goal 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.
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Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Live Myself
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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Business Enemy Myself Regret
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Enough Myself Thinking
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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Necessary Thinking Writing
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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Family Hollywood Myself Young
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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Believe Children Home World
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Future Life Past
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Courage Material Self Confidence
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Black Myself Proud Thinking
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Lucky Myself
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Death Funny Inspirational Marriage Money
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Experience Mom Phone Year
Yes, burn your bridges.
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Bridges One Liner Relationship Yourself
It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Intelligent Marriage Men
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Disappointment Failure Success

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

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