J. G. Ballard Quotes

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

J. G. Ballard

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Film
  • Process
  • Glamorous

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• Film is anti-language.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film

• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Important
  • Bad

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Marketing
  • Treat

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • England
  • Recognized

• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Me
  • Football
  • Forget

• I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Inspired

• Mozart had extensive training from his father, who was widely considered the greatest living music teacher in all of Europe at the time.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Father

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Look
  • Forward

• A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

  

  Vladimir Bukovsky
  • Impossible
  • Economy
  • Trade

• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Present
  • Film