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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.

Bette Davis

Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Old
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Movie Stars
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Family Hollywood Myself Young
You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Lose Talent Yourself
I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVIS

Negative Order Thinking
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
BETTE DAVIS

Believe Children Home World
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVIS

Bed Body Naked Sex Thinking
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVIS

Deep Hate People
Success only breeds a new goal
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Born Goal Success
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 may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
BETTE DAVIS

Dog Thinking Travel Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVIS

Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy

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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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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