You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
KATHARINE HEPBURNBeing 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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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 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 lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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 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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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