Jasper Fforde Quotes
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
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Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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Consumers learn the value of being sure that what you want to buy is what you buy.
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Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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In many ways, CRM is the opposite of peer-to-peer computing, ... CRM is a disaster.
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Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
