J. G. Ballard Quotes

One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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People can say what they want about WWE. Paul Levesque, Vince McMahon, Michael Cole - they all gave me another life by bringing me back to call NXT. That's where I should have been in the beginning.

Mauro Ranallo

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I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

Stephen Mangan

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We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Robert Casey

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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Rollo May

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Ross Perot

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Creating a new air traffic control regulator outside of the FAA would be a risky and expensive undertaking, the consequences and costs of which would be borne by American taxpayers and the traveling public.

Mike Pompeo

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The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

Martin O'Malley

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What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

Marty Meehan

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I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.

Domhnall Gleeson

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I've never wanted to be a woman playing a guy; I love being a woman.

Bonnie Hammer

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If I want to party, I'll party at my house.

Shia LaBeouf

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Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

Shane West

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