James Ellroy Quotes
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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How convenient if you could ring up Harrods and say ‘Please send along two good murderers, will you?’
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It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.
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When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
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One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
