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.
Karen Mills
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Ed Balls
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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.'
Edgar Wright
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan
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You either make dust or eat dust.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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.
W. P. Kinsella
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Ian Mckellen
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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.
Val Guest
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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?
Walter F. Mondale
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Garth Brooks
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina
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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.
Samantha Morton
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I'm still a very big fan of Fiona Apple.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
Walker Percy
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More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….
Sebastiao Salgado
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The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically hailed by my school paper!
Lindsay Mendez
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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.'
J. G. Ballard