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J. G. Ballard Quotes

My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Mother Time Me Bridge House

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

Robert Palmer

Music Growing Up Listening You Know

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

Stephen Chbosky

Life Hope Writing Book Rest My Life

There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them. Either they have no support from their family or they live in a part of the world, maybe they've never heard a piano or seen a piano.

Stephen Hough

Family Live Support People World

Every year, I come to TED prepared to roll my eyes a lot at the beginning, but knowing that at some point in the intellectual marathon, my brain will buckle to the cascade of ideas and bend to the painstakingly rehearsed presentations.

Steven Levy

Eyes Beginning Ideas Brain Year

One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.

Tom Perez

Responsibility Looking Seeing Trends

I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.

Michael Zaslow

Life Family Myself I Am Anything Am

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

Michael Shermer

Prove Question Evidence Claim

My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds.

Miranda Lambert

Always Weight Pounds

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

Johnny Winter

Learning Age Myself Me Guitar Blues

The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.

Clint Smith

Brave Face Think Someone Humanity

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

Arnold Palmer

Work Myself Wife Me Flying Reading

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Sharron Angle

Daily God Government Country Become