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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I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so I'm blessed.
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I'm a pleaser. That's my character.
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What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
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You travel side by side through the life you share, and you come to think you know each other all too well. But if each of us enters the afterlife alone, and is asked to give an accounting, asked to speak of how one lived and what one lived for, then the accounting Daniel gave of his life might involve trials of which she knew nothing, sufferings of which he'd never spoken and that had left no outer mark.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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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.
