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J. G. Ballard Quotes

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Imagination Mind Pressure Felt

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

Water Food Small Clothing Relief

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

Jesse Eisenberg

People Feel Reach Silly You Place

At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.

Jennifer McMahon

Good Character Heart Conflict Story

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Good Luck Stupid Bad Back Way

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Good Money People Game Partnerships

I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.

School Society Always Within Working

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

Matthew Desmond

Community Health Improvement Effort

When I say, 'doin' it, doin' it, doin' it' to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the experience of doing the same things over and over. Keeping the business afloat without ever getting ahead. And it's more than frustrating - it's heartbreaking.

Business Experience Small Doing Say

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Aesthetic Much Dad Formed

Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends.

Family Myself Focus Yourself People

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Challenge Spiritual Hollywood Same

I am thrilled to be part of the Indianapolis 500.

I Am Part Am Thrilled

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