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.

  

  Valerie Cruz
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  • Game

• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
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• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Sea
  • Conditions
  • Ice

• There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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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.

  

  Francesca Annis
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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.

  

  Warren Spector
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  • Great
  • Done

• Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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  • Money
  • Vacation

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
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  • Different

• When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

  

  Victor LaValle
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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.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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  • History
  • Law

• I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.

  

  Laura Fraser
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  • Take

• When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

  

  Mae Jemison
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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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Writing
  • Cooking

• After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

  

  Barry Zito
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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.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Music
  • Family

• We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
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  • Cells

• For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

  

  Arthur Capper
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• When I started doing advertisements, I really enjoyed the whole process of shooting, and I realised that I could do the little bit of acting required quite easily. My directors also told me that I have a flair for acting and that I should polish it and try for films. Then I thought I probably had it in me - why not give it a shot?

  

  Kriti Sanon
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• My dad had this old truck that he used to take on back roads and showed me how to drive when I was nine or ten.

  

  Chord Overstreet
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• My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

  

  Moby
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  • Welfare

• I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Help
  • Football
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Jo Brand
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  • Long
  • School