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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Id love to kiss you-- : conversations with Bette Davis -
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
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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.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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.
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I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) Bette Davis smoking over Stepmother role -
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
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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.
The lonely life: an autobiography -
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
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I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
The lonely life: an autobiography -
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
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