I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
KATHARINE HEPBURNMarriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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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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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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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