Katharine Hepburn Quotes
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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As a little girl, I was athletic: 'Oh, mom, look at me. I can do cartwheels.' I was one of those annoying kids. I craved the spotlight. I had the feeling since I was little that the stage was my home.
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All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
