“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
— Bette Davis
Author: Bette Davis
Category: work
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There are new words now that excuse
“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.”
— Bette Davis
Author: Bette Davis
Category: truth
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I am doomed to an eternity of
“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.”
— Bette Davis
Author: Bette Davis
Category: success
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This has always been a motto of
“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
— Bette Davis
Author: Bette Davis
Category: work
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The best time I ever had with
“The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
— Bette Davis
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Category: time
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A sure way to lose happiness, I
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
— Bette Davis
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Category: happiness
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Wave after wave of love flooded the
“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”
— Bette Davis
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Category: great
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I was never very interested in boys
“I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.”
— Bette Davis
Author: Bette Davis
Category: women
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
— Bette Davis
Author: Bette Davis
Category: work
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Wave after wave of love flooded the
“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”
— Bette Davis
Author: Bette Davis
Category: romantic
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I was never very interested in boys
“I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.”
— Bette Davis
Author: Bette Davis
Category: famous
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