"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did."
-Bette Davis
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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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"Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world."
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"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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"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."
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"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
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