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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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
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… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
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When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.
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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.
