Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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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 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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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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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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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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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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It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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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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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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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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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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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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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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