J. G. Ballard Quotes
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
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The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.
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Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
