Jo Brand Quotes
I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I was the most tired 11-year-old in the world.
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We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks.
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Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop around, and you need to invest in its naturalistic reality more. But I love writing both, precisely because they're so different.
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Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
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I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
