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Jo Brand Quotes

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: July 23, 1957

Topics

Work Opportunity Time Me Comedy Go

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

Knowing First Without Made Strip

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I Am Me Actor Things Poet Writer

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Robin S. Sharma

Work Leadership Passion Influence

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

Women Color Black White Undermine

I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.

Sports Memory Golf Say Kid Asking

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

Lisa Marie Presley

People Think Trying Know Possible

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

You Perfect Want Editing Writer

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

Change Memories Brain Self Emotions

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Science Think You Measure Decide

I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Work Feel Los Angeles Go Done Going

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

Christopher Buckley

Love Living Dead Still Writer Oscar

I think Jay Leno is fantastic.

Brian L. Roberts

Think Fantastic I Think Jay Jay Leno

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