Jasper Fforde Quotes
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.
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I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.
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So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.
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Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.
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In her sepulcher there by the sea - In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.
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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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If there's no one beside you When your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark
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Cader de la padella ne le brage.
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
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He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
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As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different opportunities.
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Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth's earlier creations seem like Winnie the Pooh.
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There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
