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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

Katharine 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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Actor Experience Humiliation Old Public Yourself
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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Believe Marriage Practical Yourself
Love fattens on smooth words.
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Love One Liner Smooth Word
You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Generosity Love Yourself
Listen to the song of life.
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Life Listening One Liner Song
A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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Wild Wink Woman World
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
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
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Innovation Mindset Terrible Yourself
I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Atheist Believe Each Other Exception Myself People
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Desperate Marriage Passion Serious
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
Never complain. Never explain.
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Complain Expectation Explanation
When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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Control Myself Success
Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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Beyond Boundary Children
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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Age Attraction Decoration Myself Past Time

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