Jean Kerr Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
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What happens in our future can change the meaning of what has happened in our past.
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
