Bette Davis
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I've always liked men better than women.
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
I've lost my faith in science.
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
I've lost my faith in science.
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
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