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"When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"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, Playwright
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"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 the best of them"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"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"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"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 it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"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"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"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 the left"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing"
Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright
"Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile"
Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright
"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer"
Sam Shepard, Playwright
"Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play"
Sam Shepard, Playwright
"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional"
Richard Foreman, Playwright
"A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general"
Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright
"It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach"
Ronald Harwood, Playwright
"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play"
Richard Foreman, Playwright
"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale"
Richard Foreman, Playwright
"It's true, I don't like the real world"
Richard Foreman, Playwright
"I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that"
Richard Foreman, Playwright
"Virtue looks good, but it only suits imposing figures"
Frank Wedekind, Playwright
"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
Christopher Hampton, Playwright
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