Jenny Eclair Quotes

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Important
  • You
  • Everything

• We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Say
  • Flowers

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Help
  • Push

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Think

• I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

  

  Pierre Salinger

• If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.

  

  Alice James
  • Life
  • Intervals
  • Density

• When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

  

  Michael Gove
  • People
  • Father
  • Wall

• For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

  

  John Updike
  • Sex

• I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • People
  • Career