James Ellroy Quotes

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James Ellroy

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• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Life
  • Identity
  • My Life

• 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Myself

• I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Passion
  • Universe
  • Force

• My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• I really am a woman at peace.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Peace
  • Woman
  • Really

• I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Amazing
  • Goal
  • Memories

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • She
  • Remember
  • History

• You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Poetry

• Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Book
  • Effort

• I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Sleep

• For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

  

  Langston Hughes

• Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • Writing

• The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Value
  • Books
  • Uncomfortable

• You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

• Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly understand why Angela Merkel supported Nicolas Sarkozy because of the action they have taken together, even though I have questioned its results, and because of their shared political sensibility.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Why
  • Together
  • Political

• I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

  

  James Ellroy