Jo Brand Quotes
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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One of my mentors was Patricia Schroeder, and one night she came to me on the floor and she said to me, "Why are we sitting in Congress, when a lot of women would try to do it and couldn't? Why are we here and others aren't?" And I thought back and said it was because my father believed in me and she said the same thing, she said her father believed in her and thought she could do anything.
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.
