Katharine Hepburn Quotes
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
