James Ellroy Quotes
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
Quotes to Explore
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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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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as 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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Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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It's a lot of fun to be able to run around with guns and scream and yell and do the kind of FBI-cop kind of stuff, which is different than what I've been doing, which is kind of playing the boy-girl thing. Its always fun to kiss the pretty girl, but sometimes, amazingly, you can get bored with that, too.
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
