Jo Brand Quotes
My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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Caffeine is a good thing.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
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I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.
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I think it's a different experience for plus-size women in film and television to get clothes for events. It's just not as welcoming for us to get cool clothes that are, like, equal in glamour, in style, to what, I am going to say, 'small size' co-stars get to wear.
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Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.
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People know what I'm doing.
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I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.
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My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.
