J. G. Ballard Quotes
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
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Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.
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Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
