Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
KATHARINE HEPBURNYou politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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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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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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