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Naïveté, thy name is me.

Lauren Bacall

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Lauren Bacall
Age: 89 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 16
Died: 2014
Died: August 12
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The Bronx
New York City
Betty Joan Perske
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I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.
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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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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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I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.
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I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.
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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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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.
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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 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 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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As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say almost because the high wire is definitely out.
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In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.
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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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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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The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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I am essentially a loner.
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A planned life is a dead life.
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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