Jean Kerr Quotes

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• When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.
• You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because…
• I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
• I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
• The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
• Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.
• An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.
• 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).
• 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…
• Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get…
• Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have…
• 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.
• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
• Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't…
• Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
• I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

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