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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.
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I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.
Jo Brand
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To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
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I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'
Jo Brand -
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.
Jo Brand -
Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.
Jo Brand -
With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.
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Wild men are so enormously attractive.
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It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
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Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.
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People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.
Jo Brand -
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Jo Brand -
I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.
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People can forgive each other.
Jo Brand
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Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.
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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
Jo Brand -
I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.
Jo Brand -
I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.
Jo Brand -
Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
Jo Brand -
I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.
Jo Brand
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My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.
Jo Brand -
The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.
Jo Brand -
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
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I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.
Jo Brand