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" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "
Lauren Bacall
Finally
Came
Felt
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" When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. 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 sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. "
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" In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. "
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" Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. "
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" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "
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" I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress. "
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" I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. "
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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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" I am not a has-been. I am a will be. "
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" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "
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" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "
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" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "
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" Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. "
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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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" You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. "
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" I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made. "
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" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "
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" I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. "
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" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "
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" The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. "
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" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "
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" A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. "
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" When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being. "
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