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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNPeople 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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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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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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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Listen to the song of life.
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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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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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Loved people are loving people.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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