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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Bette Davis

If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Born Children Men Sex
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Experience Mom Phone Year
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Age Beginning Cake Old Time
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
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Age Couple
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
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Appearance Relax
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Empowerment Inspirational Women
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Freedom Myself
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Death Inspirational Reality
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
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS

Breakup I Miss You Love
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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End Fame Ourselves Stars
You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVIS

Fun Pain Yourself
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Actors Heart Reality
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
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Attractive Men Old Woman
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVIS

Adventure Cheat Funny Love Marriage
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Hollywood Important Legs
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
Among 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.
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Marriage Money Sex
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Children Hate Parents Yourself
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVIS

Disappointment Failure Success
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
BETTE DAVIS

Mean Trust White Wine
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
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
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

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