Jo Brand Quotes
The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
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I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
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With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
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I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
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If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
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I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.
