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Growing up takes longer than you think.
Lauren Bacall
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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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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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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
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I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.
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I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
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The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.
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I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
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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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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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the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.
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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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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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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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Naïveté, thy name is me.
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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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I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.
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I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
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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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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.
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