Jo Brand Quotes
I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
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In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
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I went through a phase of buying a lot of masks, as anyone who has been to a party at the house will testify.
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Ernest Mtunzi, Former UK Representative of Joshua Nkomo.
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Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family.
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I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
