Lauren Bacall Quote Explained: If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?

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Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

Actress

· USA

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Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

- Lauren Bacall

Actress

· USA

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All actors are terrified – they just learn how to control it.

- Lauren Bacall

Actress

· USA

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The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

- Lauren Bacall

Actress

· USA

Moral

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I’ll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I’ll miss the six I really had.

- Lauren Bacall

Actress

· USA

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I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

- Lauren Bacall

Actress

· USA

Felt
Stage

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Life is not what you expected it to be.

- Lauren Bacall

Actress

· USA

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One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

- Lauren Bacall

Actress

· USA

If goodness is its own reward, shouldn’t we get a little something for being naughty?

If goodness is its own reward, shouldn’t we get a little something for being naughty?

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

All actors are terrified – they just learn how to control it.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

I’ll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I’ll miss the six I really had.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it’s a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn’t.

Why don’t you slip into something more comfortable? Like a coma.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

If goodness is its own reward, shouldn’t we get a little something for being naughty?

If goodness is its own reward, shouldn’t we get a little something for being naughty?

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