J. G. Ballard Quotes
The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.J. G. Ballard
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
Ira Sachs -
Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider -
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza -
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis -
We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
Zara Larsson -
Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
Irwin Redlener -
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett -
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
Walter Cronkite -
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
Rafael Nadal -
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae -
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
Adam Driver -
The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Leaks are always bad news.
Valerie Plame -
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Daniel Craig -
Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
Ram Charan
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I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
Ed Greenwood -
It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
Tanya Tucker -
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
Marine Le Pen -
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
Tony Blair -
The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
J. G. Ballard