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If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." (as Marie 'Slim' Browning in )" --
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Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
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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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Half of life's problems disappear when one's head is healthy.
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Lauren Bacall |
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I'd like to meet the man who decided that people do or don't look Jewish. What the hell does that mean anyway? Is it the American penchant for pinning things down, catergorizing, for pigeonholing people? Whatever it is, it's wrong.
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Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.
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We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Cafe de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk cafe having coffee or a drink - the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysees was incredible - the chestnut trees - how could one city attain such perfection? Who had dreamed it up? Who had made it all come true? I wanted to see e..
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Lauren Bacall |
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From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am.
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Lauren Bacall |
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Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.
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Lauren Bacall |
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There is always the fear that a wonder of the world can't live up to expectations. Not so. The Taj Mahal was breathtakingly beautiful - if anything, better even than I'd been told. Beauty like that is too dazzling to be imagined.
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But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.
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Lauren Bacall |
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The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.
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Lauren Bacall |
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like this - I'd thought it would be neat and tidy, one reporter at a time. I didn't know then how Charlie Einfeld
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Lauren Bacall |
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And making a fool of yourself is something all actors have to risk doing. That's part of our business. And that too is not the end of the world, though it can seem so at the time
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Lauren Bacall |
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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Lauren Bacall |
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
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Lauren Bacall |
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Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say.
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Lauren Bacall |
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A planned life is a dead life.
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Lauren Bacall |
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badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.
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Lauren Bacall |
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He was... a womanizer, he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.
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Lauren Bacall |
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It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.
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Lauren Bacall |