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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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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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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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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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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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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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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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.
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We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.
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The federal government should not be in the business of initiating and administering short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior.
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A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.
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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.
