J. G. Ballard Quotes

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

J. G. Ballard

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• More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Real
  • Key

• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Together
  • Drama
  • Famous

• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Happy

• Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Community
  • Single
  • Day

• I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Right
  • Down
  • Holding

• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • Friends
  • Practice

• Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Name
  • Group

• But you can't emphasize 'beef', that's like his wanting me to emphasize 'in' before 'July'! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!

  

  Orson Welles

• There has definitely been a significant bias from the local media like nothing like I have ever experienced, but I intend to have the last laugh when I win tomorrow.

  

  Karen Handel

• There is something fucking unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them..

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Crazy

• Her cunt gripped him like a warm friendly hand.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Hand

• To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana

• I'm nervous whenever I perform.

  

  Adele
  • Nervous
  • Perform

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Situation
  • Difficulty
  • Too Late

• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Choice

• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

  

  J. G. Ballard