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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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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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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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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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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If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.
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Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.
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I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working on is always the best song I've ever written. The woman I'm looking at is the most incomprehensibly beautiful woman I've ever seen. These dogs that I have now are, by far, the best dogs I've ever had - although, so were the last pair of dogs I had.
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That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
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Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!
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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.
