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

• My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • New
  • New York
  • View

• 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

• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Favorite
  • Far

• 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

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.

  

  Kerry Condon
  • Job
  • Summer

• I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.

  

  Alethea Kontis
  • World
  • English
  • Sister

• If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Science
  • Hate
  • Trump

• Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

  

  Ali Mazrui
  • Culture
  • Race
  • Mixture

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

  

  Jo Brand