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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. ↗

— Bette Davis

#challenges #dead #doing #key #life

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. ↗

— Bette Davis

#attempt #been #impossible #improve #mine

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. ↗

— Bette Davis

#bored #did #i #me #never

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#country #fall #love #makes #people

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#banging #came #conventional #different #different people

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. ↗

— Jack Vance

#every #fact #get #in fact #job

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#boat #city #elderly #everyone #free

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#author #focusing #i #i always #ignorant

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#free #guise #health #intimidate #into