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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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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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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Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
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I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'
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The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it.
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I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
