James Ellroy Quotes
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Golf is not easy.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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All of us grow.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
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I like to buy a new fragrance for each film. I'll go out in the city where I'm filming and snap it up. The one I have for 'Into the Woods' is Terry de Gunzburg Flagrant Delice, which I bought in London.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, 'Wow, I can be successful.'
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I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
