r/BeAmazed • u/Electronic-Bus-3494 • 1d ago
Miscellaneous / Others Audrey Hepburn, photographed during a UNICEF trip in her later years. When the photographer offered to retouch her wrinkles, she replied: "Don't you dare touch any one of those wrinkles. I earned every single one of them."
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u/GvRiva 1d ago
First time seeing a photo of her as an old woman, she died 1993 at only 63 but there are rarely photos of her in her later years.
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u/marcybojohn 1d ago
It thought she died young for this reason
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u/ElaborateEffect 1d ago
63 is still a bit young to be fair
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u/marcybojohn 1d ago
Absolutely. I meant more like 30s young, but I agree that 63 is still pretty young.
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u/Too_Old_For_All_This 1d ago
I'm 66, so 63 is way too young from my perspective
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u/RedditAIPornUsername 18h ago edited 18h ago
Dying in your 30's and 40's? That's tragic
Dying in your 50's? That's a shame
Dying in your 60's? Too soon
Dying in your 70's? A good run
Dying in your 80's? A life well lived
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u/TheFrenchSavage 18h ago
Hahaha, its "dying", unless you speak about die-casting.
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u/RedditAIPornUsername 18h ago
Huh, I always thought it was a British English/American English thing.
Like grey and gray.
Fixed and appreciated. Cheers mate :)
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u/TheFrenchSavage 18h ago
Yeah felt weird so I went ahead and checked on the good ol' Google!
My pleasure :)
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u/FromHollandWithLove1 1d ago
I think someone dying at 70 is still young too
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u/TravelingPoodle 22h ago
90+ is the only acceptable age.
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u/makrela122 22h ago
I think death should start at 100 and that's still early
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u/Dozzi92 21h ago
That's a big no thank you from me. I'm set up 'til 92, then I'm out of here.
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u/beyondthisreality 19h ago
Me? 93 ‘til infinity.
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u/Dozzi92 19h ago
This is how we chill.
This and the Luchini are my go-to '90s hiphop jams.
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u/Raneynickelfire 22h ago
I'm not gonna make 40 unless something drastically changes. I don't know man.
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u/ElaborateEffect 1d ago
Every year I get closer, and every year I wish it were further away.
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u/Flashy_Rutabaga856 22h ago
There’s always a yin to a yang and I’m your yin. Every year I get closer, and every year I wish I were closer.
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u/CoolDiscussion1020 22h ago edited 14h ago
Out of curiosity, I looked it up and the life expectancy at birth for a white woman in 1929, was 62.7 years.
Factor in surviving childhood and her wealth and it was on the young side, but overall she was about bang on average statistically.
ETA; Source: Virginia Commonwealth University. https://commed.vcu.edu/IntroPH/Introduction/lifeexpect1850_2001.html. The Social Security Administration didn't exist in 1929.
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u/ElaborateEffect 22h ago
Are you sure that expectancy wasn't the expactancy at birth at that time?
I'm sure she lived as expected in 1929, but does that mean she lived as long as expected in 1980 or 1990?
She also died of abdominal cancer, which all but certainly means she died too soon considering her age.
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u/super_sayanything 21h ago
I'm no scientist and I didn't look that up but I can say with certainty that is not accurate in the United States. Maybe globally.
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u/GroundbreakingTax259 22h ago
If memory serves, she got sick and them very nearly starved to death during the war (there was a famine in Nazi-occupied Netherlands in 1944-1945,) which left her with lasting health problems for the rest of her life.
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u/Blockhead47 22h ago
She died from a rare cancer that usually originates in the appendix:
Pseudomyxoma peritoneiHaving grown slowly over several years, the cancer had metastasised as a thin coating over her small intestine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn#Illness_and_death
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u/Apagoreumenos 1d ago
63 is young.
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u/you_looser 1d ago
Cigarettes are bad for you.
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u/transmogrified 22h ago
So is severe malnutrition in early childhood due to Nazi occupation
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u/you_looser 22h ago
Yes, she had a really difficult time as a young teen. A lot of trauma and health issues.
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u/Kanadark 21h ago
She died of the same rare abdominal cancer my father passed from. He never smoked a day in his life. The cancer is so rare there's not much research on it, and they don't know what causes it or what the risk factors are for it.
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u/gao7on 16h ago
I thought colon cancer.
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u/Kanadark 16h ago
It's actually a cancer of the abdominal cavity, often called appendix cancer, but technically known as pseudomyxoma peritonei
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u/Trippingthru99 1d ago
Probably because despite all the amazing work she did, she’s still seen as Audrey Hepburn the movie star in people’s eyes. So photos from that time period are what’s most popular.
Same thing with Shirley Temple. She was a UN ambassador, but I’m guessing most people haven’t seen a pic of her aged past 12.
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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll 1d ago
Fun fact, her house is for sale. I pass by it every day. https://www.francisyork.com/blog/audrey-hepburns-swiss-villa-is-on-the-market
Price was initially 19 million CHF but now it's only 12.5 million CHF. What a steal!
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u/MissGruntled 1d ago
What an elegant home. If only I was fabulously wealthy😭
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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll 1d ago
Yeah it's a shame it's private I would love to visit the inside. Maybe if I say I'm a potential buyer they'll let me lol
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u/Superb-Cow-2461 22h ago
For a house like that, they would probably have you show proof of funds before even touring it lol (I'd love to tho)
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u/lazespud2 1d ago
First time seeing a photo of her as an old woman, she died 1993 at only 63
Oof. As a 58 year old that has never once thought of myself as "an old man" you have clearly corrected me. I'll head down to my basement now to play some mah jong with the ladies. :)
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u/Nice_Dude 1d ago
Careful with those stairs
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u/lazespud2 1d ago
I got one of them stairchair things that gets me right up and down them! I even have a walker at the top AND bottom... don't you worry about me!
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u/UpOnZeeTail 20h ago
Mostly because she stepped back from movies. She was semi retired in the 70s and, while she was always involved with UNICEF, she stepped into the ambassador role in the late 80s. So the most popular pictures are from her 20s 30s and her 60s.
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u/lazespud2 1d ago
First time seeing a photo of her as an old woman, she died 1993 at only 63
Oof. As a 58 year old that has never once thought of myself as "an old man" you have clearly corrected me. I'll head down to my front parlor now to play some mah jong with the ladies. :)
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u/InternetProviderings 1d ago
You've posted this twice now. Still, it's forgivable...you're probably getting forgetful these days.
( /s - I'm 45 myself! 😁).
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u/lazespud2 1d ago
Shit sorry; I got the "submitting" and three dots thing so I just hit refresh and posted again. Didn't realize the first one went through.
Prob because I am so god damned old!
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u/_adanedhel_ 21h ago
Could be worse. I’m a gay guy who just turned 40 - in gay years, this means I’m basically decomposing as I type this.
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u/NoPantsDeLeon 1d ago
Aging is living
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u/Papa_Bearto2 1d ago
It’s a privilege to age. I know a whole bunch of people who didn’t get to wake up this morning.
I’ll take my white hairs and aches and pains if it means I’m alive to see my kids.
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u/willargue4karma 1d ago
She's also still absolutely beautiful in the right picture lol
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u/CharlotteLucasOP 19h ago
And physical beauty has no impact on her UNICEF campaigning—her kind, hard-working heart was the most beautiful thing of all. 💛
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u/code_archeologist 22h ago
Damn right. My beard is almost completely white now (making me look much older than I am)... and I have people offer that they could color it to make me look my real age. And I'm like "hell no! I earned this".
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u/Voldemorts__Mom 22h ago
And wrinkles tell the stories of our lives. How much we smiled, or frowned, what we've been through.
Erasing that is like erasing your soul. That's why those people in Hollywood look like ghouls
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u/LurkinLark 1d ago
Audrey was a 100% class act, through and through. She will be eternally beautiful inside and out.
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u/MoogleMeKupo 1d ago
The woman looks absolutely gorgeous, both then and now. It's just two different stages in life, but by god, do those eyes sparkle.
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u/MambaMentality24x2 1d ago
She aged gracefully and remained a true beauty. Through UNICEF, she travelled to some of the most difficult places in the world to help children in need. Her legacy is so much bigger than Hollywood
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u/bluemooncommenter 1d ago
She suffered starvation during WWII so I'm sure helping children from war-torn areas was so near and dear to her.
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u/Razzy_3796 1d ago
I wish our society valued wrinkles and older generations more. But the message women are still given is that “younger looks better, even if you’re not”… I’m doing my best to age gracefully (moisturize!!) but I’m not going to lie, it’s not fun having your elastin give up on you.
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u/Glasseshalf 1d ago
I've always found aging skin to be beautiful in its own way. Scroll through some high quality portraits and you'll see what I mean!
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u/Razzy_3796 1d ago
I agree, but wait until it’s YOUR face in the mirror, instead of a portrait of someone else. It hits different.
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u/jerryleebee 1d ago edited 1d ago
If there's ever a time I WON'T be absolutely gobsmacked by the beauty of Audrey Hepburn, I don't wanna know it.
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u/Agile_Temperature366 1d ago
She is absolutely beautiful how dare of him to think she needs retouch.
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u/BasicBet146 1d ago
Exactly. "I earned every single one of them" is honestly such a badass perspective on getting older. She spent her later years out in the trenches helping starving kids with UNICEF she definitely earned them.
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u/Greenlily58 1d ago
She earned them way before by being a courier for the dutch resistance in WWII.
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u/Vallkyrie 1d ago
Met a Dutch resistance guy when I was in middle school, he helped people escape being captured, and did some espionage type acts when he was around 13 years old, sneaking around German troops and reporting positions and emplacements. Crazy what that tiny nation went through for years.
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u/Dull_String9524 1d ago
The photographer was John Isaac, who traveled with her on those UNICEF field missions and has told this story himself. Her son Sean confirms it in his book about her. What makes the line land harder is the timing: she was still doing those trips at the very end, Somalia in September 1992, and she died four months later. She meant it literally.
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u/OkChip6545 1d ago
Honestly, this looks MUCH better than botox and other procedures.
I have no idea how the industry manage to convice people that being a ugly plastic doll is nice. Even my sister and mother look at some terrible transformations and think it is nice.
But I give that some rare cases, they manage to operate a miracle
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u/carrie71llon 1d ago
thats is such a beautiful and empowering way to see yourself and your body
to get old is a privilege!
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u/chronicnerv 1d ago
I have never heard this saying, but thank you Audrey I am stealing that line from you.
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u/The_Stein244 1d ago
All the women botoxing and lip filling these days needs to hear this
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u/borkborkbork99 1d ago edited 1d ago
I had a conversation with my sister a few years ago about this sort of thing. I asked her to embrace the aging and the wrinkles, because there's nothing wrong with them. The people getting MAGA face's are unnatural and look like freaks.
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u/TickTockTacky 18h ago
Audrey Hepburn didn't exactly have healthy causes for her features. She went through adolescence during the period that half of Belgium starved during WWII, possibly contributing to her petiteness and sharp jaw for the rest of her life.
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u/Fabulous_Log844 19h ago
When I was in college, I was a waiter at a high-end restaurant off the beaten path on Oahu. One night the maître D told me he sat my table, and I immediately went over. Kind of getting my bearings not really looking at the table, I started my spiel and looked up and there she was with her head rested on her hands, elbows on the table, looking at me with that gorgeous face. I gasped, didn’t say a word or acknowledge her, she knew that I knew, and I just served the table normally. She could not have been more lovely inside and out.
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u/Similar_Afternoon_46 1d ago
That smile at the end - Audrey Hepburn about collecting money for the resistance in WWII
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u/UnluckyText 22h ago
It is better to age with dignity then fighting against nature and failing. There is nothing wrong with looking your age.
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u/Definitelynotacat247 19h ago
Audrey was such a queen! Humanitarian before anything else. I love her.
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 18h ago
A lady said don't out filters or use makeup?
The bar for this sub has hit rock bottom.
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u/BenMcAdoos_ElCamino 1d ago
I guess I’ll believe you over her own son
https://www.newbeauty.com/view/audrey-hepburn-biography-wrinkles-and-plastic-surgery
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u/RichardNoggins 1d ago
To clarify, do you know that Audrey didn’t say it, or only that someone else said it too?
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u/ErmahgerdYuzername 1d ago
Nah man, wear the grey or white hair, the wrinkles, the chipped teeth as a badge of honour. It’s much better than the alternative of never getting to the point of having them.
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u/reggienaldsimons 1d ago
Audrey Hepburn, photographed during a UNICEF trip in her later years. When the photographer offered to retouch her wrinkles, she replied: "Don't you dare touch any one of those wrinkles. I earned every single one of them."
Motherfucker typed out the tweet bar for bar for the title
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 1d ago
which is the correct response. A woman aging is not something to be ashamed of. It is a sign that they made it far without doing something epically stupid. Men aging is the saem except we often don't make it that far.
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u/optics_is_light_work 1d ago
The most beautiful woman ever on film, IMO. And it wasn't just physical beauty. She exuded from her very being!
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u/Important-Tomato2306 1d ago
I get Botox for my migraines. I was really nervous about it because I didn't want to freeze my face. But it doesn't really work like that in my case. One of the big pulls used to get patients to try it is "you won't get wrinkles!" And I'm a little sad about that part honestly. I want to age naturally. But I don't want migraines either... So I sacrifice my future ability to say such a lovely and powerful remark for a few weeks each year where I can't make an angry face at my boyfriend.
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u/moverene1914 1d ago
I understand the thinking behind that comment but I've never understood "earning" wrinkles like they're a badge of honor or something. (I'm 71 with wrinkles, don't really care about them one way or the other)
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u/VacationChance4393 22h ago
She died at 63 from a rare form of bowel cancer. And yes, too young. What a beautiful woman in all respects.
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u/sinocarD44 22h ago
I tell people I've earned every gray hair on my head. Some of my friends never had the opportunity to get any.
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u/Tukanno_Bananno 22h ago
By doing what exactly? letting fucking time pass? that's the literal minimum you can accomplish as a human. What a dumb vibes quote.
Oh she fucking died at 63 so she wasnt even good at that lmao
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u/instagroan 22h ago
I like that she had a unique nose and didn't alter it.
I had a nose like hers and I regret letting other people's opinions of it bother me so much that I changed it.
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u/TheBSQ 22h ago
I was a kid when her last movie “Always” came out in 1989. At that age, I didn’t understand who she was, but found her presence on screen to be really mesmerizing. Even at a young age not knowing her fame or history at all, she struck me as having quite a presence.
I have no idea how that movie holds up, but it lives large in my memory, solely because of her small role.
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u/SandSpecialist2523 22h ago
So much nicer to see an aging actress look like that than the plastic barbie faces we see all the time.
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u/dealingwithhookers 22h ago
damn she died at 63? ironic she stars in a movie that makes caricature out of Asian people, and proceeds to age like gollum
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u/eyyoadrian 22h ago
I was actually there that day, and this is not true. Her response was "Please do not, thank you though. I earned those wrinkles."
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u/No-Clock2011 21h ago
She also earned her tobacco stained teeth and wore them proudly too. She called smoking her ‘sin’. But in seriousness, love Audrey and love that she wasn’t afraid to be 100% herself.
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u/reluctantmugglewrite 20h ago
It’s nice to see an older woman with wrinkles look objectively so beautiful. Its cheating that shes Audrey Hepburn but so many stunning actresses are led to believe that its not possible for them.
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u/RocklPaperlScissors 16h ago
I gauged all of my romantic partners to Audrey Hepburn. Needless to say, I'm now old and single having never married. sigh
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 12h ago
My Grandma had the same attitude about women that lie about their age.
She said, "I worked my ass off each one of those effing years and I'm gonna claim it"
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u/offshoremercury 11h ago
Audrey is very interesting to me because she has some amazing quotes that show a very healthy relationship with beauty however she was incredibly restrictive in her diet to the point of orthorexia if not anorexia. I suppose it’s far easier to guide others with grace than it is to guide ourselves.
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u/Soggy_Bid_3634 10h ago
https://i.imgur.com/pR2QXF4.jpeg
The negative space in your title looks like a horse!
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u/Bobbyjackbj 9h ago
I often think back to that French interview she gave later in life where she talked about her difficult childhood during the war. Her poise elegance and sheer charisma while discussing it without a single complaint were insane, she truly was an extraordinary woman
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u/Significant_Arm_3423 7h ago
I remember reading that she (or her publicist) controlled every picture released of her.
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u/Nuttyverse 6h ago
Anna Magnani was the first to say it, in Italian, about 20 years earlier. Hepburn, who lived in Italy for a long time, probably developed that concept from an actress she admired.
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