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.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

Jessica Simpson

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Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.

Andrew Zimmern

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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

Tom Waits

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I don't think that 'The Weight of the World' is all about politics. It's like, how the environment and how the natural topography of this planet would ever fall into a political division, debate, just leaves me confused.

Rodney Crowell

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I can remember very clearly sitting in a little room in my apartment going, 'You know what, Jace? I think it's time to go back to university.'

Jason Clarke

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Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

Douglas Wilder

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In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

Cherrie Moraga

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I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Christine Lahti

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Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.

Chris Roberson

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A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.

Brett Gelman

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I'm really blessed to have an amazing family.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

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