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.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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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.
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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.
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
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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.
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I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
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I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.
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I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
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I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!
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When two hypotheses are possible, we provisionally choose that which our minds adjudge to be simpler, on the supposition that this is the more likely to lead in the direction of truth. It includes as a special case the principle of Occam's razor-entia non multiplicana praeter necessitatem.
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Sooner or later, all games become serious.
