Katharine Hepburn Quotes
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often say they did it for themselves. In one case, a hero said that the cost of not doing it is so great, the sense of shame, when he knew that he was strong enough, that the fear of not doing anything was more frightening than the fear of dying.
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Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.
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I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
