Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
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I used to work at a pub called The Miner's Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint - it's the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren't right.
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It got to the point where I sat on the side of the bed in a hotel room in London in early-1990 and said to whoever or whatever: 'If you are there will you please contact or leave me because you are driving me up the wall'.
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I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.
