I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIt’s how you live that really counts.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Listen to the song of life.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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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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’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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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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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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