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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.

Bette Davis

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.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Confidence Myself Stuck
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Heart People
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
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Beginning Myself Time War
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Missing Opportunity Reward Winning
I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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Boy Interest Myself See Woman
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
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Children Hate Parents Yourself
I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Faith Lost Science
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Future Life Past
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Hate Yourself
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Fame Myself Talk
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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Art Baby Entertainment

To look back is to relax one’s vigil.

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