Jo Brand Quotes
When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.
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It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.
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I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
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And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.
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When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.
