Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
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I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
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I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.