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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
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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You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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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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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I've lost my faith in science.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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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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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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