Audrey Hepburn Quotes

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Audrey Hepburn

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• I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.

  

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• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

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• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

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• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

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• Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

  

  Patricia Riggen
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• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  

  Harri Holkeri
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• I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.

  

  Kate Williams
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• Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

  

  Laura Fraser
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• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

  

  Zainab Salbi
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• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
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• The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• Napoleon's The One Concealer is amazing. Pantene Styling Treatment Foam makes my stupid-crazy hair behave, and I love hair powders such as Aveda Pure Abundance and Batiste Dry Shampoo.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being and which he has to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial stuff of the painting.

  

  Yves Klein
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• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
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• I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine - 3,500 people.

  

  Lauren Alaina
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• With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
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• My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Women
  • Career
  • Ambition