J. G. Ballard Quotes
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
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The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
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Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
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Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
