J. G. Ballard Quotes
Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.
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I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.
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I try to space the floor and use my athletic ability to get to the rim... I try to get the best of both worlds.
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I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.
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As a trusted institution with brick-and-mortar facilities in every corner of the United States, our public Postal Service is uniquely positioned to serve as a communications, finance, and service hub for the 21st century.
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
