Lauren Bacall Quotes
They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
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I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
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They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
