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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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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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've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'
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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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It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?
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Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.
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There is no religionin our industry. My dad is a Muslim, my mother is a Hindu and i call myself insaan.
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If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
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It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.
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My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
