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You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

— Jean Kerr Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

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

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.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

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

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

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

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.

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