#act

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#counts #patterns #theories #value #without

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#ethic #i #i do #kind #know

The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#arena #class #competitive #diversity #fact

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing. ↗

— Jo Brand

#actually #because #big #embarrassed #encouraging

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently. ↗

— Jo Brand

#children #different #fact #had #hoping

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#already #any #been #did #festival

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. ↗

— Russell Brand

#beautiful #because #believe #believe in yourself #construction

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#i #i do #knows #manager #mother

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#count #full #gotten #had #i