James Ellroy Quotes

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

James Ellroy

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• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Business
  • Tough
  • Pragmatic

• Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Writing
  • Universe

• I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Scared
  • Horror
  • Watch

• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Everyone
  • System

• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  

  Vince Gill
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl's. I can't wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.

  

  Zendaya
  • Work
  • Women
  • Beauty

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Day
  • Hands
  • December

• The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Jazz

• Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Work
  • Building
  • Stronger

• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Me
  • Pen
  • Hen

• Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teaching of music; persons who know me well could recognize some truth in those seemingly errant prognoses.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Future

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Environment
  • I Was Raised

• The fans make the person a star.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Star
  • Person
  • Fans

• Our love is the reason romance was created.

  

  Faraaz Kazi

• A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Tongue

• My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Adventure
  • Curiosity
  • Seduction

• Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates(As curious ladies do, their public cates),This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings,The dreadful presence of our empress sings:Which grant for ever (O eternal Night)Till virtue flourish in the light of light.

  

  George Chapman
  • Music
  • She
  • Night

• Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

  

  James Ellroy