Audrey Hepburn Quotes
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Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.
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I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.
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This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.
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My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.
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A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.
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I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
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Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.
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Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.
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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
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Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?
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Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
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The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
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And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.
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If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
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I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements.
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I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.
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I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.
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I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.
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The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
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I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
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Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.
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Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.