"I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic."

-- Jenny Eclair

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“In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.”
“God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.”
“Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.”

Source : "Woman and Her Era". Book by Eliza Farnham, pt. 1, ch. 1, 1864.
“I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.”
“That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.”

Source : Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.13, Northwestern University Press
“Franchement, quand je survole certains pays europÃ©ens (les Ã©oliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)”
“You will be transformed by what you read.”
“I don't eat chicken abortions!”

Source : Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl Novel”, p.153, A&C Black

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