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Naïveté, thy name is me.

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Lauren Bacall
Age: 89 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 16
Died: 2014
Died: August 12
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Betty Joan Perske
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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.
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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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I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
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Acting is a life of rejection.
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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
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Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.
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Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.
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Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
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There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.
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A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
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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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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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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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