Lauren Bacall Quotes
"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."
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Everything begins with an idea.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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When in doubt, do it.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
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My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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TV isn't a wide medium when it comes to boldness on the small screen because of the audience. It reaches out to the audience but keeping the traditions intact.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."
