Jean Kerr Quotes
You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
Quotes to Explore
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I want to have my own line and collection.
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I think, sometimes, actors having a holistic view of what they're in can be overrated. Especially when you're playing somebody as narcissistic and self-involved as Ernest Hemingway, it doesn't really matter what else is in the script.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
