Jenny Eclair Quotes
I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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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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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. 'Foxcatcher' is kind of like a metaphor for that.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
