Jasper Fforde Quotes
Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.
Quotes to Explore
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.
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We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
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Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.
