Jasper Fforde Quotes
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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The world is always terrible.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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I'm trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don't know if there's any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
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Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.
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My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
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The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.
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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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I had the play safe. I saw a replay - it was a point where Randall made a great stretch, made a great play. I have to go with what I had on the field.
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But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
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I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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Class clowns become actors.
