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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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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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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We need to clarify it. We need to work on it. We will continue to do that.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat.
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My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.
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I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
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Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
