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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It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
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Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
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We were fighting, scratching and clawing all year. At the end of the game, you had that feeling of 'Here we go again,' but we made the plays we needed to win the game.
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We have to face the world like it is before we can make it what it should be.
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Class clowns become actors.
