"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did."
-Bette Davis
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"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.“
-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."
-Bette Davis
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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."
-Bette Davis
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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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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
-Lao Tzu
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