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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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Women
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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
Bette Davis
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.
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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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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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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.
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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
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