Jean Kerr Quotes
Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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Fantasy fans are incredibly loyal and passionate. Other people don't want to be seen as passionate about things, they want to be cool and laconic. The great thing about fantasy fans is they'll really get behind a show.
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When I do shows in the U.K., I see lots of people bring their kids to the show. Which is perfect because I am the world's most embarrassing mom.
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Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
