James Ellroy Quotes
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
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All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
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Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.
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I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
