Jenny Eclair Quotes
I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Never let me hear anyone say again that a Socialist State cannot provide outlets for those with initiative. The rewards given to ability in the U.S.S.R. at all levels are far greater than those given to the employed in capitalist Britain. I have seen it and it works.
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I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
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I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.
