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Jean Kerr Biography

Jean Kerr (July 10, 1922 – January 5, 2003) was 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.

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Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

Baby, Children, Funny, Noticed, Thereafter, Thing

It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. . . . If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles. . . they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

Explained, Horse, Looked, Small, Toys, Way

I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

Lines, Package, Pleasure, Twenties, Twenty

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

Admit, Make, Making Mistakes, Mistake, Mistakes, Women

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Closing, Down, Elevators, Lasts, Shopping, Store

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

Average, Gets, Good Morning, Inspirational, Plain, Terrible

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Deal, Deals, Failure, Learning, Think, Thinking

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

Grasped, Keep, Losing, Possible, Success, Understanding

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

Bride, Lying, Morning, Packard, Rich, Stars

I will read anything rather than work.

Knowledge, Read, Work

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

Alive, Baby, Fact, Party

Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what the girls' wants and needs. Vying to win their hearts.

Girl, Heart, Pickup, Real, Trust

People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

Call, Dear, Irritated, People

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

Lost, Situation, Seriousness, Possible, Keep, Losing

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

Christmas, Door, Doors, Enterprising, Morning

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.

Airplane, Diets, Inspirational, People, Travel, Wonderful

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

Drink, Drinking, Numbers, People, Way

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

Accomplishing Something, Like, Pregnant, Sense, Ships, Water

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

Actor, Forgotten, Long, Numbers, Phones

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

Civilized, Time

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