Jenny Eclair Quotes
I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it's a great way to just refresh.
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Life's only as bad as you make it out to be. It's go nothing to do with the way it is.
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Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract him into doing? Buying you a nice house? Giving you the space to guide your own life? Or, offering his deepest gifts to you and all beings while opening his heart to God? Are you a selfish witch, a self-sufficient witch, or a witch for the sake of drawing your man and all beings open as a gift for all?
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Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.
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I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.
