Katharine Hepburn Quotes
. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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Women drive box office.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
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For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.
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. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
