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Jasper Fforde Quotes

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 11, 1961

Topics

Speak Long Down Ask Lists Books

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

Law Bad Country Rule Of Law Mean

Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.

Team Feel Satisfied Well How Very

I graduated from college when I was 20. To get enough money to finish college, I went into the ROTC, and I was an officer in the Air Force before I could buy a drink.

Melvin Van Peebles

Money College Enough Air Force Drink

I respect all the fighters. I respect Jon Jones. I respect Chris Weidman, but I'm here for working.

Respect Here Working Fighters Chris

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

You Play Carry Star Where Role

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.

Art People Nice Her Some Many

Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too.

Suki Waterhouse

Me Loved Weird Toilet Email Her

I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from the start of childhood. And if you have never learned to treat girls and women respectfully, you will never be able to act differently later on than the men in your culture, and in your family. That's fact.

Family Women Culture Men Childhood

A lot of campaign lexicon is very militaristic - even the term 'campaign.'

Even Campaign Very Lot Term

She made a ravishing corpse.

She Made Corpse

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Confident Feel More Poet Just Than

When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.

Steel Old Years Miles Got Million

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