Jo Brand Quotes

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

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• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Price
  • Treasure

• After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Political
  • Better
  • Media

• I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Find
  • Looking
  • Looking Back

• It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Things
  • Interest

• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Boy

• A man's kiss is his signature.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Romantic
  • Kiss

• I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Want

• This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Deep

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Never

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Luxury

• I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Mind
  • Remember

• The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.

  

  Xavi
  • World
  • History
  • Player

• I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Reality

• They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

  

  Jo Brand
  • People
  • Time
  • Cold