Jo Brand Quotes

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

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• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Reach

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Different
  • Today

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Crazy
  • Driven
  • Schedule

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • School
  • Home

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Enough

• 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Person

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Writing
  • Education
  • Serious

• All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Voice
  • Variety

• The 3-point line has changed the game so much. The day of the big man, unless you're extraordinary good, is not numbered, but certainly you gotta be a lot more versatile to play the game today. You gotta be able to really run up and down the court.

  

  Jerry West
  • Up
  • Good
  • Today

• No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... It is a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Beauty
  • Profession

• A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Culture