Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIt is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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.
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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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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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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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.
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