Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr
Jean Kerrwas an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 July 1923
CountryUnited States of America
knowledge
I will read anything rather than work.
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One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind
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Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
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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
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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
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When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs.
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A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
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Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
feeling hope
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
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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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Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.
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I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.
It takes at least one to make a marriage.
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I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.