Lauren Bacall Quotes

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

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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

• 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 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 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

• When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Star

• We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

  

  Alan Shearer
  • Game
  • Success
  • Confidence

• One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Book

• Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Serenity

• 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

• Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Magic

• When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?

  

  Alexander Chee
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• Its time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Needs
  • Drug
  • Safe

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

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • My Choice
  • Best Roles