Jean Kerr Short Quotes

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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.

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I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

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People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

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I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

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There's a flaw in your character, Oliver. You have a problem for every solution.

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Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

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There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

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Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

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It was hard to communicate with you. You were always communicating with yourself. The line was busy.

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I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

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'I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.'

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Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

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I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

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I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.

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The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.

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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?

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Now the thing about having a baby — and I can't be the first person to have noticed this — is that thereafter you have it.

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An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

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Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella — no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

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What is missing in him is probably necessary for what is missing in you. Let us not to the marriage of true impediments admit minds.

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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

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Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

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