Jo Brand Quotes
It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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I hate big models.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
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If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.
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Being must be felt. It can't be thought.
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Then you notice likkle carpet burnMy stomach drop and my guts churnYou shrug and it's the worstWho truly stuck the knife in first?I cheated myself like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no goodI cheated myself, like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, yeah you know that I'm no good.
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The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.
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Far too often, 'software engineering' is neither engineering nor about software.
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You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!
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The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
