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Jasper Fforde Quotes

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Cash Contract Give Me Give Them

It is certainly for the interest of the service that a cordial interchange of civilities should subsist between superior and inferior officers, and therefore, it is bad policy in superiors to behave towards their inferiors indiscriminately, as though they were of a lower species.

John Paul Jones

Service Bad Policy Behave Superior

In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is by prosecuting some high-level person. While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial.

Best Experience Name Person Go Way

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

Reach Same Size Audience Show Needs

If I had to name one thing that differentiates me from the other women, it's that I get free stuff at restaurants or get discounts.

Women Me Free Name Get Stuff

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

Life Change People Looking Movies

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

Bad Old Turn Fans Ears Oatmeal

Whatever solutions there are for flood control need to be bipartisan.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Control Need Whatever Flood

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

Roland Emmerich

American Movies Hollywood Watching

I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a juvenile detention facility.

Father Mother School High School

I lived in a favela.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

Time You Place Film Because Theater

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

Perspective Book You Pictures Need

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