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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.

Bette Davis

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

Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Heart People
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Business Stars Yourself
It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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Hate People Worth Yourself
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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Beginning Myself Time War
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
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
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 comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Care Children Family Hate Love
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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Black Myself Proud Thinking
I work to stay alive.
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Alive Myself
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Enough Myself Thinking
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Director Fire Goodness Herself Myself
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Act Big Life
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Relax
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Person Yourself
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Character Myself
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Couple
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Children Hate Parents Yourself
The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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Space Thinking War
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Art Herself Opinion Women
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Enemy Fire Hate Help
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
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Bored Friendship Tears
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
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspiration Memories

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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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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