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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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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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If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but what are you going to do now? is the only thing that matters.
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People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
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The lack of work destroys people.
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I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth
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Few people know what they mean when they say, I love you. ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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Listen to the song of life.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
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Nobody owes anybody anything it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.
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I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
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Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
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It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
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