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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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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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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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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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that crowds are just collections of people. That seems like a very nihilistic way to look at the world.
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Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.
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The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.
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I was kind of lucky because I was fit and healthy when I was in my teens, got a bit wild in my 20s, and stopped round about my 30s.
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I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.
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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.
