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You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

~Lauren Bacall

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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 wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

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I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.

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I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

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I was never my favourite subject.

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I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

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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 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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I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 16th, 1924

Died: August 12th, 2014

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