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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I got to write most of everything I said.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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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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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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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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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
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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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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.
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I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
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I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.
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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!'
