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I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
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Josephine Grace Brand
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I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
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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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I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
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When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.
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When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
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I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.
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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.
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I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.
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My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.
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I think people tend to believe that women who are successful are probably neglecting their children, possibly a bit hard-nosed and that they don't really support other women very much - that they're men-haters and ball-breakers. I've certainly been on the receiving end of those 'compliments' for most of my career.
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.
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I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.
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The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.
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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
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People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
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On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.
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I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.
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I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.
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I've been breastfeeding for two years. I could light the gas ring with my nipples.
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