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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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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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 you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do 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 luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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 will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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