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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It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.
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I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
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Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in the sense of correct but also in the sense of just. Conservatives likewise believe they are right-as-in-correct. Yet Tories are less confident about whether their politics are right-as-in-just.
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I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
