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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. — Katharine Hepburn
I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more. — Katharine Hepburn
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