It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
KATHARINE HEPBURNYou give because you love and cannot help giving.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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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It’s how you live that really counts.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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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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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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Loved people are loving people.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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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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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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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