Lauren Bacall Quotes

I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.

Lauren Bacall

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• Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Different
  • Character
  • Game

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Easy
  • Transition

• Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Strength

• I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Why
  • May
  • Body

• As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Home
  • Job

• The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Time
  • Lost
  • iPhone

• Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • You
  • Where
  • Drop

• I regard religion as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear

• Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

  

  Chuck D
  • People
  • Real

• To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Important
  • Why
  • Understanding

• I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Life
  • High
  • Culture

• I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble out the door, get into my car and go wherever it is that we're shooting. You have breakfast on set.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Night
  • Fall
  • Car

• If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Done
  • Couple
  • Anonymous

• I am open and respect everyone's religious and spiritual choices because at the end of the day, in my opinion, I hope that we are all praying to the same God.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • God
  • Hope
  • Respect

• I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Brain

• I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Gun

• We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Work
  • Attention

• The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45, Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model, and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Book
  • Muddles
  • Hayek

• I was a rapper. The reason I stopped rapping was because I realized that people wanted guys like Puff Daddy. That's not what I do. I quit. That was it. I had to sacrifice for my choice. I said, 'Forget it. I'll be a producer.' Nobody was going to make me do anything.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Forget
  • Sacrifice
  • Realized

• I don't want to be an opinion anchor.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Opinion
  • Anchor

• I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • My Choice
  • Best Roles