Jasper Fforde Quotes
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
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I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
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As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
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Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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Our psychology is … a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. It Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
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As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
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I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week.
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When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.
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Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.
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Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.
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In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.
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I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
