Jenny Eclair Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
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Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.
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Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
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Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."
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I can't sing.
