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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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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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 always have to be writing.
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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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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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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 see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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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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I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.
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All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.
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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.
