James Ellroy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 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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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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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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There's just a lot of really young, entitled people. I don't think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They're found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio, so they think they can get anything they want.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
