Jean Kerr citations

Jean Kerr était dramaturge.

✵ 10. juillet 1922 – 5. janvier 2003   •   Autres noms Jean Kerrová
Jean Kerr: 14   citations 0   J'aime

Jean Kerr: Citations en anglais

“Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.”

Mary, Mary, Act II http://books.google.com/books?id=8YuwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Movie+actors+are+just+ordinary+mixed-up+people+with+agents%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage (1961)

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”

Jean Kerr livre Please Don't Eat the Daisies

" Children Really are Not People http://books.google.com/books?id=TPRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+average+healthy+well+adjusted+adult+gets+up+at+seven+thirty+in+the+morning+feeling+just+plain+terrible%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957 http://books.google.com/books?id=0QkfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22The+average+healthy+well+adjusted+adult+gets+up%22+%22at+seven+thirty+in+the+morning+feeling+just+plain+terrible%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“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 livre Please Don't Eat the Daisies

"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“I will read anything rather than work.”

Jean Kerr livre Please Don't Eat the Daisies

"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.”

Jean Kerr livre Please Don't Eat the Daisies

"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.”

In Finishing Touches (1973), Act III, Kerr borrows this line (changing "we" to "you") from Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook (1963), ch. 5
Misattributed

“Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.”

Jean Kerr livre Please Don't Eat the Daisies

" Children Really are Not People http://books.google.com/books?id=w0FnrZaKX7MC&q=%22Children+are+different+mentally+physically+spiritually+quantitatively+qualitatively+and+furthermore+they're+all+a+little+bit+nuts%22&pg=PA157#v=onepage," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957 http://books.google.com/books?id=0QkfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Children+are+different+mentally+physically+spiritually+quantitatively+qualitatively+and+furthermore+they're+all+a+little+bit+nuts%22&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?”

"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Don't Want to Hear One Word Out of You"
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

“You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three”

Jean Kerr livre Please Don't Eat the Daisies

parties don't count
"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

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

"I was a Sand Crab" http://books.google.com/books?id=teAQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+make+mistakes+I'll+be+the+second+to+admit+it%22&pg=PA17#v=onepage
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

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