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I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.
Lauren Bacall
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Lauren Bacall
Age: 89 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 16
Died: 2014
Died: August 12
Film Actor
Film Actress
Model
Singer
Spokesperson
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The Bronx
New York City
Betty Joan Perske
Betty Perske
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If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.
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You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.
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Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.
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I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.
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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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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
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Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.
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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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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
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The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.
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I am essentially a loner.
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
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I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.
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People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.
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Growing up takes longer than you think.
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