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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.

Bette Davis

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Secret
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
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Expectations Happiness
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Acting Hollywood Party
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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End Fame Ourselves Stars
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Men Myself Woman
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Fame Myself Talk
I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Death Inspirational Reality
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Future Life Past
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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Achievement End Forever Goal Myself Success
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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Black Myself Proud Thinking
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Death Inspiration Memories
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Bored Friendship Tears
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Born Children Men Sex
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
Your luck is how you treat people.
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Luck People Treat Yourself
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Live Myself
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
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Person Yourself
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
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Act Big Life
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
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Hollywood Important Legs
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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Dog Thinking Travel Yourself

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