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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I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
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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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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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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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As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.
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I don’t know where this road is going to lead. All I know is where we’ve been and what we’ve been through.
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If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.
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I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.
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I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.
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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
