Jo Brand Quotes
There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.
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Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.
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I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
