Lauren Bacall Quotes
If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.
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I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.
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I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.
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My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
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And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
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It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.
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One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do.
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This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie's done. You get awards, you don't get awards... They don't make your movie more ugly or pretty.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
