J. G. Ballard Quotes
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey -
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld -
I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
Becki Newton -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman -
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner -
I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
Victoria Pendleton
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
Fareed Zakaria -
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken -
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
Ted Deutch -
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
Tavi Gevinson -
TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
Landon Liboiron -
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
Vaclav Klaus -
I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
Fannie Flagg -
I'm always late.
Sade Adu -
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
Aaron Ruell
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I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.
John Gregory Dunne -
I'm an actor. I'm a singer. And I dance. To be able to do all these things is amazing. And to have similar-minded people all around you, doing what you love, is even more amazing.
Elijah Kelley -
The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
Jenny Shipley -
It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.
W. Eugene Hansen -
I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.
T. C. Boyle -
Sooner or later, all games become serious.
J. G. Ballard