Jasper Fforde Quotes
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
Quotes to Explore
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
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I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always a tinge of empathy for that individual.
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I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.
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I work with a lot of lovely ladies.
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Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.
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I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.
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It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs. Recently, I relapsed and did things for which I am ashamed. I broke the law, and today I took responsibility by pleading guilty to the charges in my case.
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Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.
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No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
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Each gig is an hour of madness, and afterwards I'm absolutely exhausted, shaken to bits. The adrenaline charge and energy needed are shattering.
