Love fattens on smooth words.
KATHARINE HEPBURN
KATHARINE HEPBURN
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Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn You give because you love and cannot help giving.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn 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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