Jasper Fforde Quotes

I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

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• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Lose

• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Equality
  • Nobody
  • Anyway

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

  

  Barry Took
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Writing
  • Questions
  • Without

• A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Internet

• Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Sometimes
  • Greed
  • Hatred

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Control

• Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Perspective

• American literature has always been immigrant.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Always
  • Literature

• I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • School
  • Career
  • Science

• Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

  

  Antonia Fraser
  • Women
  • Fun

• When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • People
  • Good

• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Petty

• It used to be that we felt that when we went to a theater, a legitimate theater... that we were going to share an experience together. That when we walked away where there would be something to talk about in that movie that had some meaning and relevance in our lives. And I think that we have lost that.

  

  Frank Pierson
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Movie

• If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

  

  Jasper Fforde
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