Jo Brand Quotes
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.
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I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
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A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.
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Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.
