Jean Kerr Quotes
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I love recording music.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.
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As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.
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I LOVED her! ay, I would have givenA death-bed certainty of heavenIf I had thought it could conferThe least of happiness on her!
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I shall keep it the manuscript by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes.
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A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
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Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
