Jo Brand Quotes
Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.
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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
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When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
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It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
