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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.

Bette Davis

I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Stuck
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Freedom Myself
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
I work to stay alive.
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Alive Myself
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
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Death Gravestone Herself Way
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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Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
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’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Children Hate Parents Yourself
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Missing Moments Sailing
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 was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Female Generation Myself
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
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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Home Yourself
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
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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Space Thinking War
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Hate Yourself
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Appearance Relax
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Disappointment Failure Success
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Actors Heart Reality
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
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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Marriage Money Sex
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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Character Difficult Success
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
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 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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Art Artist Himself Human
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Age Couple

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