Jasper Fforde Quotes

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

Jasper Fforde

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• I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

  

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• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

  

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

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• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

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• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

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• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

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• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

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• Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.

  

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• Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

  

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• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

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• I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

  

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• Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

  

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• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  

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• In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

  

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• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

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• The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

  

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• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

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• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  

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• Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-term side effects, and I just don't think that can be good for you.

  

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• I play Xbox in my underwear.

  

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• I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'

  

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• I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • English