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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Jean Kerr
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Jean Kerr
Age: 82 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 10
Died: 2005
Died: January 5
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Bridget Jean Collins
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I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.
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I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.
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... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.
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I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.
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There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.
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I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.
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I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
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I will read anything rather than work.
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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
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You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
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When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.
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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.
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I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.
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Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.
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I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.
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