J. G. Ballard Quotes
'If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.'
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
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I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
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'If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.'
