Katharine Hepburn Quotes
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I have an incredibly high metabolism.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.
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The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
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Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.
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James Dean was always a tortured soul.
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In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
