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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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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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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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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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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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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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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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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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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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