“I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.” ThinkingKindI CanPlayActorsCan DoComedyVery GoodEastVersionsContinuumEnder Author:Jo Brand
“Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.” FirstsReadingSleepVicesSupposed To BeSolitaryBaths Author:Germaine Greer
“A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWritingTryingMindHas BeensBookEnoughPastFoundLiteratureWrittenDemocraticLibraryTyrantsDictatorImmuneUndoneIndoctrinationPublic LibraryThink For YourselfLove Literature Author:Doris Lessing
“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.” MenShouldEffectsOughtCreaturesRationalBeastIrrationalBrutes Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.” KnowsSaidFeltKnow HowWindFlowerBedRainGardenLays Book:The poetry of Robert Frost Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.” WorldMadeIdeasAgeYoungSpiritLosesPartyMembersDemocraticNew IdeasDemocratic PartyBe YoungZest Author:John F. Kennedy
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” IfsInspirationalHumorFunnyKnowledgeNewspapersUninformedReading Newspapers Author:Mark Twain
“I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsFeelingsComedyAppearanceBitternessCommentAcceptableHecklers Author:Jo Brand