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You are the only person you can actually change.

Katharine Hepburn

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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Complain Man Myself Position Time Woman World
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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Car Fun Myself Old Terrible
Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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Life Pursuit Vital
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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Hope Time Try Woman
To be loved is very demoralizing.
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Love Moral One Liner
I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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Fear Greatness Intelligence Man Myself People
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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Actor Experience Humiliation Old Public Yourself
Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Time
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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Ambition Average Hollywood Marriage Standard
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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Children Decision Myself Woman
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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Father Mistake Sister Teaching Yourself
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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Fate Legend Master Myself Survive Time
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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Art Goodness Myself People Secret
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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Hurt Knife Pain Quick
All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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Life Myself Party Stay
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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Myself People Strong Thinking Tough Tremble Young

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