Jasper Fforde Quotes
You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
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I go into every fight trying to win as easy as I can.
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I was a huge O. J. Simpson fan.
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I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.
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As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
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Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
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After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
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One must stand stiller than still.
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The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
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I never consciously set out to model myself after Upton Sinclair.
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I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.
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Might let him take it home and slaughter that/ He got friends for all of my friends/ They ain't leaving 'till we say when/ And we gon' hangover the next day.
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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
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A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
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There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.
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Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
