It’s how you live that really counts.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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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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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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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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