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 HEPBURNPlain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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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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 not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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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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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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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