James Ellroy Quotes
I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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Windows never planned for a VR device. When you plug a HDMI cable into the computer, Windows thinks it's a new monitor. The desktop blinks. It tries to rearrange windows and icons.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'
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You never see girls running after engineers.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
