Jo Brand Quotes

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

Jo Brand

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Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Joan D. Vinge

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As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

Jerry Saltz

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When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

Jerry Lewis

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I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.

Jeffrey Tate

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It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

Maxine Waters

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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

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For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us.

Jean-Marie Messier

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Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Jeff Foxworthy

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Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to replicate it exactly, the way I got around it was by inventing a new narrator.

Sophie Hannah

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I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who are chasing me down the street, some of the sharpest, most efficient emotional barbs. And they know that in that moment, in that one-to-one wit competition, they just got smashed.

Russell Crowe

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I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

Miriam Margolyes

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Hope, decency, and unity are not mere catchwords.

Jon Ossoff

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