Jo Brand Quotes
We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I don't like controversy.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
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We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.
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Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.
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I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.
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At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.
