Jasper Fforde Quotes
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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I love Canada.
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
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I love music; it's my passion.
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I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
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I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.
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People think I'm a gambler. I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.
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What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.
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We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
