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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.

Bette Davis

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
BETTE DAVIS

Art Baby Entertainment
Strong women only marry weak men.
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Man Strong Weakness Women
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Man Reality Woman
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
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Goodness Time Women
I work to stay alive.
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Alive 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
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Person Yourself
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVIS

Director Fire Goodness Herself Myself
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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Family Hollywood Myself Young
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
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
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’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Live Myself
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Fame Myself Talk

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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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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