I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
KATHARINE HEPBURNOnly 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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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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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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Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Listen to the song of life.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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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 want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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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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Love fattens on smooth words.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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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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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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