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1 " 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. "
― Lauren Bacall , By Myself
2 " Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. "
― Lauren Bacall
3 " Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "
4 " Imagination is the highest kite that can fly. "
― Lauren Bacall , By Myself and Then Some
5 " I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. "
6 " Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. "
7 " You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "
8 " I am not a has-been. I am a will be. "
9 " 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. "
10 " Half of life’s problems disappear when one’s head is healthy. "
11 " 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. "
12 " We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Café de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk café having coffee or a drink – the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysées 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 every corner of it. "
13 " From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am. "
14 " Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early. "
15 " 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. "
16 " The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them. "
17 " like this – I’d thought it would be neat and tidy, one reporter at a time. I didn’t know then how Charlie Einfeld "
18 " 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 "
19 " When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. "
20 " You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought "
