Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.
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The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
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All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.
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It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
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My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
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If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.
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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
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It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
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If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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.
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.