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I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth
Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Hepburn
Age: 96 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 12
Died: 2003
Died: June 29
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
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I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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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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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
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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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You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.
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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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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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Without discipline, there's no life at all.
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