Jasper Fforde Quotes
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.
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To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
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I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'
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Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
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I don't have to build up strength; I have been blessed with it. I do lift weights and train hard, but I am a very special individual - a very special man with very special talent and very special power. I can get any man - any man - out of there in a matter of seconds. That is the thing I love about myself.
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As much as a lot of my music is very R&B, there's a bounce to it that obviously makes it easier to perform live. It's upbeat and uptempo.
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Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.
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If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.
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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
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So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.
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In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).
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The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
