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.
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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.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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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.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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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.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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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.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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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.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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…a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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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.
