Lauren Bacall Quotes
When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
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My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
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Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
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A theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.
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We're very clear on 'black-ish' about how many opinions are voiced by Dre Johnson.
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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
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We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.
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When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
