Jo Brand Quotes
My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
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Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.
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I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
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My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
