J. G. Ballard Quotes

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfSchoolYouCopySayOut

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

John Edgar Wideman

SportsFunWritingWriteAlways

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Megan Fox

LifeSchoolStepHigh SchoolThink

If 'The New York Times' didn't exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. 'The Huffington Post' and everything else is predicated on 'The New York Times'. It's a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information - and her confidence.

Steve Bannon

ConfidenceNew YorkInformationNew

There are no patents in finance.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

FinancePatents

I was depressed for a long time.

Tony Rock

TimeLongLong TimeDepressed

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

Roy Lichtenstein

ArtThinkWayWorstTensionSeems

For me, it's always this constant battle and search when I'm out on stage as to where and when do I really open myself up to the people that are there. How do I let myself feel present in the space, and how do I allow myself to get into the music and interact with the band members.

Matisyahu

MusicMyselfSpacePeopleMeBattle

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

Mitt Romney

LoveBelieveAmericaI BelieveWhere

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

Peter Capaldi

MistakesYourselfYouMaking Mistakes

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

Peter Fonda

KnowKindResponsibleGotRoles

I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.

Shilpa Shetty

MorningMyselfBirdSaturdayEarly

I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.

Twiggy

LoveTechnologyMeNewNiceSewing

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