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Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?'
'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.
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Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2))
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Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee."
Again the Mouser shook it. "Gray Mouser," he said a touch defiantly, as if challenging anyone to laugh at the sobriquet. "Excuse me, but how exactly do you pronounce that? Faf-hrud?"
"Just Faf-erd.
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Fritz Leiber (Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1))
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Stop explaining how impossible it is, stop making endless excuses, stop faffing around…and just do it!
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Sophie Kinsella (Love Your Life)
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There’s a medical term for it, actually. It’s called Hugh Grantism. You spend so long faffing around trying to do the correct thing that the chance to do anything at all just slips you by.
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Trevor Baxendale (Something in the Water (Torchwood, #4))
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I believe values are best understood and internalised when they are expressed as behaviours.
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Faf Du Plessis (Faf: Through Fire)
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When I first envisioned myself running, I saw myself as Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling in the opening scenes of The Silence of the Lambs. So strong, so focused, so proud. She is utterly confident, completely single-minded about her training run across a terrifying assault course. At one point she runs past a tree with the sign HURT AGONY PAIN LOVE IT stapled to it. She doesn’t care what she looks like; she has shit to do, and she is going to get it done. And yet . . . she is wearing a phenomenally impractical outfit. She is in a heavy cotton sweatshirt and tracksuit bottoms and is drenched in sweat. The top is sticking to both her chest and back and looks painfully heavy. She is summoned by a colleague and heads inside past a roomful of people dressed in khaki, faffing around with guns, and then gets into an elevator. All in the heavy, damp cotton. That wet fabric must have gotten incredibly cold the minute she stopped running, and it bothers me whenever I think of the poor woman in that meeting. For years the scene was my running inspiration, yet now I am unable to watch the first hour of the film without worrying about whether Clarice is shivering from the horrors of Hannibal Lecter or because she caught a dreadful chill.
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Alexandra Heminsley (Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run)
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The best nicknames that I have ever come across: -Dai Young (ex-Wales rugby prop, current coach of Wasps) –‘Only the Good’.
-Billy Twelvetrees (England rugby centre) –‘36'. - Martin Offiah (ex-rugby league legend)–‘Chariots’
- Nia Wales (ex-work colleague) –‘Chester’
- Fitz Hall (QPR defender) –‘One size’
-David Jones (lower league rugby player who had half an ear bitten off) –‘Dai 18 months’
- The New Zealand junior rugby team -the small blacks
-The New Zealand basketball team -the tall blacks
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John E. Chick (The 10,000k Challenge: ...faffing across Europe on a bike!)
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Although your daily ‘to do’ list may change, your overall work priorities shouldn’t. My priority list goes something like this: Existing client work New client luring Financial admin –getting paid Marketing, self-promotion and blog writing Faffing about on social media It’s a simple and effective way to make sure I focus on my customers and don’t get sucked into random videos about cats on Facebook. (Well, most of the time.)
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Kate Toon (Confessions of a Misfit Entrepreneur: How to succeed in business despite yourself)
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sort of worked, our arrangement. Before I couldna seen the sense in it. But two of us getting meat and wood, two of us keeping a look out, it was more efficient that one bloke faffing about on his own. And it wasn’t we had anything in common exactly but we was another human to talk to.
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Tim Winton (The Shepherd's Hut)
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I am a tough cricketer, and I play my best under pressure.
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Faf Du Plessis (Faf: Through Fire)
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says I make too much noise with all my faffing about.
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J.D. Stockholm (Telling Teddy)
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What was going on here was something Smitty had seen before: a young person’s first real farewell to the world of school and college, where even if they are rebelling and faffing about and getting in trouble, the truth is that the whole experience is about them. They think that the whole world revolves around their needs, for the good reason that the institutions and authority figures in their world do, in fact, put them first. They’re not wrong to think they’re the centre of the universe. They’re just wrong to think it will stay that way.
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John Lanchester (Capital)
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What stands out for me from that time is just how narrow the line between self-destruction and self-actualisation can be.
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Faf Du Plessis (Faf Through Fire: An Autobiography)
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Agreeing to a value is the easy part. Living it is something altogether different.
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Faf Du Plessis (Faf Through Fire: An Autobiography)
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That makes them actionable. In the boardroom
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Faf Du Plessis (Faf: Through Fire)
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Karen’s FAF addition to my dating app profile being
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Adrian Cousins (Dead Goode: A Time Leap Adventure (Deana - Demon or Diva Book 3))
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Spent the years wandering, mostly. Faffing off. Getting high. Sucking dick. Seeing the country. As one does.
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Chuck Wendig (Wayward (Wanderers, #2))
Adrian Cousins (Dead Goode: A Time Leap Adventure (Deana - Demon or Diva Book 3))
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he’d done it very quickly, and Elizabeth had said that that was always the best way to kill someone, and that there was never any point faffing around.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club)
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If that’s what my bloodthirsty queen so desires.” She glanced at Rune sidelong. “I am anything but yours.” He grinned, but something tugged on the corners of it, weighing it down. “If it makes you feel any better, Majesty, I am nothing if not yours.
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Meg Smithermann