Jasper Fforde Quotes
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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My hunger is always there.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
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I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
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I was attracted by the curve - the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
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When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.
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I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
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Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
