Jo Brand Quotes
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
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For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
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I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
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Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
