Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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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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Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?
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We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.
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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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In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
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I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!
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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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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 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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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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Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
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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.
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My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.