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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

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
Listen to the song of life.
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Life Listening One Liner Song
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
Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Children Pretend Sell Time Yourself
I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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Act Believe Myself
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
You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Generosity Love Yourself
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
Never complain. Never explain.
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Complain Expectation Explanation
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Beautiful Knowledge Man Woman
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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Independent Life Move Yourself
Loved people are loving people.
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Love One Liner People
Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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Beyond Boundary Children
I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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Interest Myself Photograph
Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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Blame Complain Myself Sex
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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Age Feeling Myself Old Romance
If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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Fun Missing Rule Yourself
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Fun Lose Myself Sight
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’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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Each Other Man Myself Togetherness Woman
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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Belief Constitution Ourselves Personal
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
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
Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Cold Fascination Myself
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
To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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Act Creativity Live Yourself
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

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