Jenny Eclair Quotes
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.
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If a snail’s shell gets injured, a repair can be made quickly. New shell material is secreted by the mantle, and where there was once a crack, a scar appears, looking much like a skin scar. Even a missing shell section can be replaced. Oliver Goldsmith described this in 1774: Sometimes these animals are crushed seemingly to pieces, and, to all appearance, utterly destroyed; yet still they set themselves to work, and, in a few days, mend all their numerous breaches . . . to the re-establishment of the ruined habitation. But all the junctures are very easily seen, for they have a fresher colour than the rest; and the whole shell, in some measure, resembles an old coat patched with new pieces.
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If I'm going to do a big film, I'm very choosy about what I do, because I think I want to continue - in fact I'm sure I want to continue - to stay in the realm of independent films with directors and writers who are just emerging with new ideas and a different vision that hasn't really been expressed yet.
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I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.
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Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.
