J. G. Ballard Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.
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I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.
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For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
