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I just don't like travelling very much.

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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
Actor
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Josephine Grace Brand
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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
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I've been breastfeeding for two years. I could light the gas ring with my nipples.
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I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.
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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
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I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.
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Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out.
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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.
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There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.
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There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
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Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
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