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Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Hepburn
Age: 96 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 12
Died: 2003
Died: June 29
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Hartford
Connecticut
Katharine Houghton Hepburn
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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The lack of work destroys people.
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Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
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I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
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Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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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The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
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It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.
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Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
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My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
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