Jean Kerr Quotes
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Climate change is a reality.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
