Jo Brand Quotes

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

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But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Joey Skaggs

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I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

John Grisham

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My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.'

Robert Rinder

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I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

Matt Damon

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'Heatwave' just fits the feel of summer for me.

Amber Mark

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce

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When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.

Jonathan Demme

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I can be a nag. And my mother can be a nag. It's a nagging relationship, but we know that it's loving.

Diana DeGarmo

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It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

Drew Brees

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I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it.

Denis Villeneuve

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I don't measure myself against my coaches, I don't measure myself against my teammates. If I'm doing jiu-jitsu for sport, I don't measure myself against the guy I'm rolling with or whatever belt he is or how many stripes he has on his belt. I measure myself every day against the guy I was yesterday.

CM Punk

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As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

Bobby Sherman

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