Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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 wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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'My beautiful Grandmother - Caroline Garlinghouse - came from Pittsburgh - my mother's mother. I never met her but I have followed many of her ideas - through my mother - And it has given me a warm spot in my heart for your city...My grandmother's brother, Fred Garlinghouse, lived in Pittsburgh, was an engineer and apparently worked for Jones & Laughlin.'
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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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.
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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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I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
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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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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
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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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It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
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I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.