Jasper Fforde Quotes
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.
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Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
