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As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.


Essie Davis

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MAC DAVIS In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
MAC DAVIS One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.
MAC DAVIS I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis wa...
MAC DAVIS Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you th...
MAC DAVIS If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did se...
MAC DAVIS A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
BETTE DAVIS I am just too much.
BETTE DAVIS Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
BETTE DAVIS Strong women only marry weak men.
BETTE DAVIS I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the...
BETTE DAVIS Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a chi...
BETTE DAVIS Sex is God's joke on human beings.
BETTE DAVIS Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
BETTE DAVIS