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" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "
Lauren Bacall
Kite
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" Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium. "
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" Patience was not my strong point. "
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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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" My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all. "
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" I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life. "
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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'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "
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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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" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "
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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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" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "
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" 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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" The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I? "
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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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" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "
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" God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant. "
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" I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. "
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" My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. "
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" I am not a has-been. I am a will be. "
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" You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. "
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" I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! "
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