J. G. Ballard Quotes

All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way.

J. G. Ballard

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Like
  • Where
  • Got

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Happy
  • Thankful

• When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy soul, you would be beautiful any time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Soul

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Painting
  • Summer
  • Grandmother

• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Growth

• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Pretty
  • Joy
  • Woman

• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Human
  • Cat
  • Lion

• It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Time
  • World
  • Society

• The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Fear
  • Stress

• War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

  

  Dean Hughes
  • War
  • Souls
  • Satan

• Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Important

• Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

  

  George Lois
  • Moving
  • Positive

• Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Play
  • Like
  • Careers

• Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Up
  • World
  • Words

• All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Career
  • Words
  • Professional