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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My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.
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You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
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To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.
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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.
