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Bette Davis

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
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.
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Believe Children Home World
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Female Generation 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
I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
BETTE DAVIS

Eat Food Forget Yourself
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVIS

Bridges One Liner Relationship Yourself
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Heaven Myself
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Goodness Time Women
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Alone Independent Man Sex
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
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
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Funny Hairs Life Myself
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Expense Happiness Lose
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Confidence Myself Stuck
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS

Person Yourself
I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Negative Order Thinking
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Bed Body Naked Sex Thinking
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
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
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Yourself
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Acting Hollywood Party

You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

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