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

• That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Nice

• I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • World
  • Professional
  • Said

• 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

• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Help
  • Never
  • Things

• 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

• I did musicals. It's funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it's very nerve-wracking.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Character
  • Funny

• Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Men
  • Die

• There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

  

  John Updike

• L'uso d'i mortali è come frondain ramo, che sen va e altra vene.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • People
  • Together
  • Forever

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

  

  Jo Brand