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 love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.
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But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
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Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
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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!'
