Lauren Bacall Quotes
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Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
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I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.
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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
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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.
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I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.
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I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.
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I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
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About working with Marilyn Monroe.We got along very well. My only complaint about her was that she was late all the time, but she was late out of fear as much as anything else, but it was hard to sit around and wait. She was usually an hour or two late every morning.
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When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.
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The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.
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Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.
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The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
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People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.
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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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Everything in this country the US has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.
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One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.
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My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.
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If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
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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."
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I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.
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The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader George W. Bush is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.
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I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
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You had to stay awake married to Humphrey Bogart. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.
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Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.