Jasper Fforde Quotes
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
Quotes to Explore
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People have to evolve.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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People love gentle larceny.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
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Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes.
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Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
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I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.
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One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.
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When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
