Jo Brand Quotes
I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.
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A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
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We really think we have a good set of strategies, ... feel Dan is absolutely the best person to become Kodak's next CEO.
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Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.
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I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'
