If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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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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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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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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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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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Never complain. Never explain.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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