J. G. Ballard Quotes

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HonestyPoetryMovementStarting

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

Jim Broadbent

LiveResponsibilityReputationYou

I'm interested in history.

Jiang Wen

HistoryInterested

A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bought by a studio or a distributor, your movie doesn't get seen.

Michael Angarano

FestivalsMoviesSeenFilmGetCome

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.

Stephen Root

BestPeopleThinkDoingYouWant

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

Sting

ChurchWeekNeverUpBeingCore

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

Tom Drury

WordsPeopleFactsFeelYouKnow

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

Mary H.K. Choi

JobRepetitionWayBreakBringGet

I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but I thought it was a really interesting use of technology and the fact that there's a whole group of people who can take over systems and fight things from behind the scenes.

Michelle Gagnon

TechnologyFightPeopleThoughtDone

A Christian's example is always Jesus.

Monica Johnson

ChristianAlwaysExampleJesus

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

Mitch Kapor

GoodThinkWantA Good ThingThing

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Liza Minnelli

GreatHumorParentsMeYouSee

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

Bobby Flay

HopeAloneFoodPeopleChefProud

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