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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.

Bette Davis

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Expectations Happiness
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
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Commitment Humanity Love Religion
Success only breeds a new goal
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Born Goal Success
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Future Life Past
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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Adventure Cheat Funny Love Marriage
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
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Black Myself Proud Thinking
It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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Alone Independent Man Sex
Strong women only marry weak men.
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Man Strong Weakness Women
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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Humanity Men Sex
Pray to God and say the lines.
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God Prayer
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Goodness Hero Old People
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Enemy Fire Hate Help
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

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