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I make mistakes I'll be the second to admit it.

Jean Kerr

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Jean Kerr
Age: 82 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 10
Died: 2005
Died: January 5
Author
Playwright
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Bridget Jean Collins
Make
Admit
Mistakes
Second
Mistake
Women

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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 thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.
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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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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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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
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