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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

Katharine Hepburn

What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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Avoid Hell Right Wrong Yourself
Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Greatness Live Myself People
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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Innovation Mindset Terrible 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
Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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Discipline Life One Liner
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Desperate Marriage Passion Serious
I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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Interest Myself Photograph
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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Reason Truth Writing Yourself
I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
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Mistake Regret Stupidity Yourself
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
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
Enemies are so stimulating.
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Enemy One Liner Stimulation
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
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
Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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Delicious Enough Luck Perspective Suffering Understand
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Myself Realization Sex Woman
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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Fun Missing Obey Rule Yourself
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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Hurt Knife Pain Quick
People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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Myself People Strong Thinking Tough Tremble Young
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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Destroy Hell Myself Thinking Work
I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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Fate Legend Master Myself Survive Time
I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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Feeling Interest Myself People Thinking World
I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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Attraction Fast Move Myself
I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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Myself Opportunity Person Thinking
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
People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Alone Famous Lonely People
Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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Life Pursuit Vital

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