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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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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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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I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.
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I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
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My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.
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I think it's becoming very acceptable for adults and teenagers to be playful lifelong. You know, it's very acceptable to be a video gamer and be 35 years old. It's acceptable to be a Lego adult fan and build amazing things, even though you're 40 or 25 years old.
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Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.
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I went to a lecture of Arthur Koestler once, I never met him.
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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.
