You are the only person you can actually change.
KATHARINE HEPBURNHe’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Listen to the song of life.
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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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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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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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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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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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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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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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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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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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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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