Jasper Fforde Quotes
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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I always like to tell a story.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
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I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.
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I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
