J. G. Ballard Quotes
Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
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I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
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Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
