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

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• 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

• 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

• 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

• At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Party
  • Top
  • Jeans

• I don't want to live on past records.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Live
  • Want
  • Past

• One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Advice
  • Flaws
  • Biggest

• The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Myself

• In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.

  

  Lillian Gordy Carter
  • Children

• I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Family
  • Age
  • Political

• To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Baby

• I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Money
  • Business
  • Deal

• 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