Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
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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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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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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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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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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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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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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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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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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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Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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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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Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.