Jo Brand Quotes
I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.
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It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
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Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
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I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?
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I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
