If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Success only breeds a new goal
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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 may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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