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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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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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 reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
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It's always fun to try non-traditional athletic wear with cutouts and fun textures.
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I was in heaven when I saw Taraji P. Henson wearing Moschino!
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Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.
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The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
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I can't sing.
