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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We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.
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You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.
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My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
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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.
