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 HEPBURNI believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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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 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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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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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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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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