James Ellroy Quotes
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
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Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.
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Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
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As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
