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.

Jasper Fforde

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• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Change
  • Wonder
  • Architecture

• 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.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • City
  • Start
  • New York

• I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

  

  Iman
  • Been
  • Muse
  • Mr

• 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.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Play
  • Video Games

• 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.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Best

• I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Evil

• 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.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • God
  • Teacher

• 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.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Important
  • Sad

• Cader de la padella ne le brage.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Time
  • World
  • Home

• I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Kids

• We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Lost
  • River
  • Stock

• Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

  

  James Carville
  • Done

• Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Home
  • She
  • Mother

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • World
  • Mind
  • School

• I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.

  

  Ali Larter
  • Boyfriend

• I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Control

• I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

  

  James Ellroy
  • Age
  • Alone
  • Focus

• There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

  

  Jasper Fforde