Quote by Jenny Eclair
I was trained as an actress. But I wasnt a very convincing actress

I was trained as an actress. But I wasnt a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. – Jenny Eclair

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Ive just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didnt get his good, thick hair. I got my mothers thin, wispy, non-event hair instead. – Jenny Eclair

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dad
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I dont do marriage. I think its incredibly naff. And I dont like vulgar displays of ostentation. – Jenny Eclair

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Marriage
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I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. Its because Im freelance, and Ive never had a proper job. I dont have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me. – Jenny Eclair

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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. – Adrian Mitchell

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Poetry

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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Poetry

To have great poets there must be great audiences too. – Walt Whitman

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Poetry

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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Poetry

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