Jo Brand Quotes
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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You have to be yourself.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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I have a couture body.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
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The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
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Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.
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I would never want to force you to do something you don't want to do, I don't ever want to take something from you that you don't want to give me.
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
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But I'd have to say Young Frankenstein, which I can watch forever.
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Men are fantastic - as a concept.
