Jo Brand Quotes
I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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Actors don't have real value.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.
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I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.
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I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
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Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
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Music is math; music is spiritual.
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Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.
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I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.
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I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
