Jo Brand Quotes

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

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• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • People
  • Actor
  • Saying

• Only men of character are trusted.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Men
  • Character
  • Trusted

• My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Son
  • Hilarious
  • Only

• There are a lot of distractions when you're in creative industries like publishing or fashion or media, and it's a real blessing to have witnessed some of those up close at a young age. I think when you get past the glamour, that's when you get to the good stuff - the stuff that really feeds your soul and enriches you as a person.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follow my doctor's instructions closely. You need to acknowledge both.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• I've worked with a few coaches, and I did theater camp when I was younger, and I think what was good was when I was younger, it was never intense Interlochen theater camp.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Intense

• There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • God
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Went to the new Church both morning and afternoon, and read service in the afternoon. I got through it all with great success, till I came to read out the first verse of the hymn before the sermon, where the two words ‘strife strengthened,’ coming together, were too much for me, and I had to leave the verse unfinished.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Great
  • Together
  • Success

• I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Movie

• In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Important
  • House
  • Listening

• I've always had this idea that you have to make the most of things.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs

• You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • People
  • Respect

• The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

  

  Bill Viola
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Giving

• The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Period

• Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Business

• The president of the United States did not tamper with a witness.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • President
  • United States
  • Tamper

• My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Dream
  • Comedy

• Beside the staff of life, taken and fashioned from the heavy earth, beside our marriage, work, and war the free man, too, will live and grow towards the sun. Not the ripe fruit alone - blossom is lovely, too. Does blossom only serve the fruit, or does fruit only serve the blossom - who knows? But both are given to us.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

  

  Jo Brand