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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.

Bette Davis

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Bette Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 6
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Character Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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