Jasper Fforde Quotes
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.
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We can invent only with memory.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
