Lauren Bacall Quotes
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
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As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.
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I've always been active - outdoors, on the beach, playing - and so to go home and have to sit on my couch and relax... it's frustrating. Sometimes, you just have to really shut yourself down.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.
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She cut her eyes to the woods and whispered, "We're not alone, remember?" "I don't care who hears it. I love you!" His voice rose louder this time. She frowned. "Nothing's changed." "Everything has changed," he said.
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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
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Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.
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Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
