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.Jenny Eclair
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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.
Maj Sjowall -
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Rainn Wilson -
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
Wayne Knight -
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler -
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
Ralph Richardson -
I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
Eddie Marsan
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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.
Haile Selassie -
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.
Tanc Sade -
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
Lajos Kossuth -
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.
Carl Hiaasen -
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.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
Paris Hilton
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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.
Nawal El Saadawi -
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
Jack Wagner -
For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
Okky Madasari -
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
Isaac Hayes -
When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
Ian Caldwell
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I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
David Puttnam -
People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.
Jon Voight -
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
Elizabeth McGovern -
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
Ted Nugent -
No one is going to tell me I'm too small to do whatever, to do anything. That's not up to them, and I'll never give anyone that power to say that.
Draymond Green -
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.
Jenny Eclair