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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
Actress
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Film Actor
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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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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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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