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Katharine Hepburn

"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."

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"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

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"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."

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"I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act."

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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."

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"Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon."

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"It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack."
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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
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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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"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."
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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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"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."
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"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."
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