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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNLove 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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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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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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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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 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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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