„Se riesci a mantenere la calma quando intorno a te tutti hanno perso la testa, può darsi che tu non abbia afferrato bene la situazione.“
— Jean Kerr
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Jean Kerr
Data di nascita: 10. Luglio 1922
Data di morte: 5. Gennaio 2003
Altri nomi:Jean Kerrová
Pubblicità
Jean Kerr , scrittrice e commediografa americana.
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„Quel che tiene legato il marito nella buona e nella cattiva sorte è la donna con la quale egli si diverte a stare insieme. E qualsiasi donna che dalle nove del mattino alle sette di sera ha mangiato soltanto tre uova sode, può essere una compagnia piacevole quanto quella di un agente delle tasse.“
— Jean Kerr
citato da Claudette Colbert
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„The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.“
— Jean Kerr
"[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 Children Really are Not People]," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, [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 27 July 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
"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Pubblicità
„I will read anything rather than work.“
— Jean Kerr
"Introduction"
„Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.“
— Jean Kerr
In Finishing Touches (1973), Act III, Kerr borrows this line (changing "we" to "you") from Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook (1963), ch. 5
„I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.“
— Jean Kerr
[http://books.google.com/books?id=teAQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+make+mistakes+I'll+be+the+second+to+admit+it%22&pg=PA17#v=onepage "I was a Sand Crab"]
Pubblicità
„Children are different— mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.“
— Jean Kerr
"[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 Children Really are Not People]," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, [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 27 July 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?“
— Jean Kerr
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Don't Want to Hear One Word Out of You"
„Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people— with agents.“
— Jean Kerr
Mary, Mary, [http://books.google.com/books?id=8YuwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Movie+actors+are+just+ordinary+mixed-up+people+with+agents%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage Act II] (1961)
