Jasper Fforde Quotes
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
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There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
