Jasper Fforde Quotes
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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Without love,there's nothing without love.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
