Jasper Fforde Quotes
I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I will run against anybody.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.
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If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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Faith in Jesus Christ is a gift from heaven that comes as we choose to believe and as we seek it and hold on to it.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
