Jo Brand Quotes

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

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• I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Business
  • Working Hard

• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Competition

• I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learn

• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Acting

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Part

• Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Motivational

• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Soul
  • Practice
  • Philosophy

• If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Why
  • Better
  • Fiction

• I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Live
  • Bank
  • West

• There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Clever

• Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Time
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • Men

• I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Great

• A shadow will appear dark in proportion to the brilliancy of the light surrounding it and conversely it will be less conspicuous where it is seen against a darker background.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• Balachander is my inspiration. He had a heart problem 40 years back. He has been making films for another 46 years. He can never grow old. My father used to be like that until he suffered a stroke. Then I suddenly realized he was an old man.That's also true of my brothers Chandra Haasan and to an extent Charu Haasan.I can never imagine them being old.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Father
  • Inspiration
  • Films

• I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

  

  Leonard Lauder

• Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

  

  Socrates
  • Live
  • Body
  • Knows

• You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

  

  Marguerite Moreau
  • Money

• Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Done
  • Book
  • Age

• The wild thing is that when I'm in the band, I can control my destiny with four other guys. As a composer sitting in the audience, you can throw good vibes at everybody, but you can't control anybody's destiny, so it's really unsettling.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Good
  • Control
  • Band

• If God used evolution, God came from an ape.

  

  Ken Ham
  • God

• I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

  

  Jo Brand