Jo Brand Quotes

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• Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
• I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
• They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it…
• As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is…
• When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
• And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as…
• 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.
• I just don't like travelling very much.
• I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.
• I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
• A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an…
• Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
• Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
• Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.
• Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.
• Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
• Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so…
• Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.
• Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
• How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone…

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