Audrey Hepburn Quotes - Page 5

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• I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Motivational, Opportunity, Lucky

  26 Copy quote

• Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beauty, Beautiful, Careers

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• I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Believe, Kissing, I Believe

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• I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Change, Success, Hurt

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• The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

  Audrey Hepburn

  People, Humanity, Suffering

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• Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Night, Going Away, Doe

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• Never throw out anyone.

  Audrey Hepburn

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• You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Happy Life, Combination

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• For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Reading, My Favorite, Social

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• I believe in miracles.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Believe, Miracle, I Believe

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• My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Loneliness, Garden

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• My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Courage, Ambition, Careers

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• I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Thinking, Looks, Faces

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• As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Attention, Taught

  "How to be Lovely‎" by Melissa Hellstern, (p. 8), 2005.

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• Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Next, Generations

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• I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beautiful, Writing, Differences

  "How to be Lovely". Book by Melissa Hellstern, 2005.

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• I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Receiving Love, Giving, Receiving

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• Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Birthday, Success, Disappointment

  "Audrey Hepburn : A Life in Pictures". Book by Yann-Brice Dherbier, Pierre-Henri Verlhac, 2007.

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• Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Thinking, Care

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• There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Girl, Wrecks, Shade

  "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961.

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• The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Moon, Men, Tree

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• I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Building Up, Eggs, People

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• Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Men, Heartache

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