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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I think they'd both lose miserably.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
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I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.
