J. G. Ballard Quotes
A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
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We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Do not allow setbacks to set you back.
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A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
