J. G. Ballard Quotes
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.
J. G. Ballard
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Takeshi Kitano
I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
Barry Sternlicht
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
Barbara Mandrell
When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
Daniel Espinosa
It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.
Maisie Williams
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.
W. Somerset Maugham
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
Zadie Smith
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.
J. G. Ballard
