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Katharine Hepburn

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Alone Famous Lonely People
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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God Justice Myself See Yourself
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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Each Other Man Myself Visit Woman Wonder
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
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
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
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.
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Atheist Believe Each Other Exception Myself People
If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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Appearance Choice Money Sex Yourself
The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Make Up Mindset People Time
It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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Life Start Yourself
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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Born Luck Myself
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
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Connection Expectation Generosity Love Yourself
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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Big Home Interest Job Mom Myself Terrible
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Interest Person Yourself
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
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Beautiful Knowledge Man Woman
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 don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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Care Myself Opinion Talk Voice
Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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Creation Each Other Future High Himself Standard
Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Time
I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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Character Children Myself Selfish Stop Terrible
The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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Act Night Terrible Theatre Time Yourself
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
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Fascination Love Wisdom Woman
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
I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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Actor Personality Stardom Yourself

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