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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

Katharine Hepburn

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
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Fascination Position Try
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 think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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Myself Opportunity Person Thinking
Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.
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Actor Experience Humiliation Old Public Yourself
If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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Fun Missing Rule Yourself
People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Alone Famous Lonely People
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Interest Person Yourself
He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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Himself Life Moments Reality Work World
I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Death Myself Sleep
It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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Electricity Energy Kind Myself
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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Age Feeling Myself Old Romance
When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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Control Myself Success
It’s how you live that really counts.
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Count Live Yourself
Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Act Idiot Perfection Professional
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
Enemies are so stimulating.
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Enemy One Liner Stimulation
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Fascination Love Wisdom Woman
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
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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Appearance Choice Money Sex Yourself
It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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Life Start Yourself
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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Burden Happiness Mistake Responsibility Terrible Work
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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Born Luck Myself
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Arrogant Bold Fear Myself Thinking
To be loved is very demoralizing.
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Love Moral One Liner
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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Myself Reward Work
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

You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

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