Jo Brand Quotes
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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Jesus abides in us and through Him we have the victory!
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
