J. G. Ballard Quotes

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 15, 1930 - April 19, 2009

Topics

FutureChildhoodAdvertisingMedia

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

John Michael Higgins

FunnyTelevisionSometimesMissFilm

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Angelina Jolie

GoodMistakeCrazyThinkSexyYou

I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys.

Troy Carter

WillUpRecordsThoseGuysCarrying

I'm delighted the world is becoming more mentally literate. A few decades ago, if you mentioned the word 'brain,' no one was interested. Now, nearly every magazine on the planet is featuring the brain. One of my original goals, on one level, was to make myself unnecessary.

Tony Buzan

GoalsMyselfBrainWorldYouNow

I don't really pick my opponents.

Robbie Lawler

PickOpponentsReally

The darker the character, the more interesting.

Robert Carlyle

CharacterInterestingMoreDarker

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.

Rosa Luxemburg

LeadershipStrugglePeopleSociety

You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.

Joshua Sasse

PeopleYouActorSeeDifferentOnly

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu

NatureLeaderI AmVacuumBecause

My husband recalls that I named my attacker as Brett Kavanaugh.

Christine Blasey Ford

HusbandNamed

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.

Colm Toibin

NameDownKnowSaidIrishShe

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

Antony Beevor

ChangeHatredHumanAbilityNormal

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