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I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
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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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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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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