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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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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Im very jealous of my daughters education. Shes been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. – Jenny Eclair

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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. – Jacques Derrida

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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. – David Lee Roth

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Poetry

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