Jasper Fforde Quotes
I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
Quotes to Explore
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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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We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.
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I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.
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I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
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The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
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I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
