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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

— Jean Kerr The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

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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.

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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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