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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 wondering about yourself.

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 wondering about yourself.

Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern

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Katharine Hepburn
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Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Katharine Hepburn: documented activity in 1928. Wikidata Q56016, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56016 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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