J. G. Ballard Quotes

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.

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 a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.

Jessica Raine

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John Hawkes

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I am a huge proponent of having a water filter of some kind in your home.

Anna Getty

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I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.

Andy Grammer

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I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.

Stacey Dash

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My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

Trevor Noah

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Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Rod Stewart

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I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

Mary Daly

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You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.

Josh Mandel

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Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

Diedrich Bader

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Dick Martin was a good buddy, and he was always a lot of fun to have around.

Dick Van Dyke

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I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

Drake Bell

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