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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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I think I might actually die of showing off. Itll be on my headstone – Cause of Death: Showing Off. – Jenny Eclair

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Death
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After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dads Army shirts, accessorised by a cats basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. – Jenny Eclair

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dad
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What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I dont want to do things on the Internet. – Jenny Eclair

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Travel
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Poetry
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

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So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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Poetry

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. – H. L. Mencken

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