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I work to stay alive.
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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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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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 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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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 never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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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