We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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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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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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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 could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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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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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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