Jasper Fforde Quotes
In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.
Jasper Fforde
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They brought it up in the beginning. This is how it happened in L.A. (where he played with the Dodgers from 1998-2002). They wanted to sign me to an extension; I didn't go to them. But when I didn't want to go through with it, I'm the bad guy, the greedy guy.
Gary Sheffield
I hope I can get out there and help the team that way, because we're a better team when I'm out there, ... Hopefully, one day, I'll wake up and feel better.
Gary Sheffield
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
Leonardo DiCaprio
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.
Lewis H. Lapham
No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
Oprah Winfrey
I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
Elia Kazan
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
Bill Vaughan
I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.
Lake Bell
For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
Nico Muhly
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
Eve Best
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with.
Benjamin Carson
In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.
Jasper Fforde
