Jo Brand Quotes
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
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When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.
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I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
