As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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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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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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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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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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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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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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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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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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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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