Jo Brand Quotes
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
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People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.
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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
