Jo Brand Quotes
I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.
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After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
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I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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I still feel like I've got a lot of great football in front of me and the way that I've taken care of myself better the last few years. I think is going to put me in position to be able to play really well late in my 30s and even in my early 40s, possibly, if they'd like to keep me around that long and I can still play a little bit.
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You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
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Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.
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It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
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Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life.
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I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
