You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVISAmong 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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