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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Missing Opportunity Reward Winning
I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Faith Lost Science
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Action Death Myself
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
I will never be below the title.
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Confidence Myself Title Worth
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
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!
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Dog Thinking Travel Yourself
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Business Stars Yourself
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
BETTE DAVIS

Dream Inspirational Life
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
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Born Children Men Sex
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

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Appearance Look Movie
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Expectations Happiness
You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Fun Pain Yourself
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

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

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