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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Bette Davis

I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Big Life Myself Problem
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Death Inspiration Memories
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Faith Lost Science
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Expectations Happiness
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
Yes, burn your bridges.
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Bridges One Liner Relationship Yourself
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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End Fame Ourselves Stars
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Disappointment Failure 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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Men Thinking Woman
As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Actors Heart Reality
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Career Life Myself
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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Marriage Secret
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.
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Dream Inspirational Life
Pray to God and say the lines.
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God Prayer
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Expense Happiness Lose
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Actors Artist Difference
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Heart People
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Courage Material Self Confidence
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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Experience Myself Reward Shapes
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Person Yourself
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
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 Miss You Missing Pain True
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Movie Reason

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