James Ellroy Quotes

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

James Ellroy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 4, 1948

Topics

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Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

Robert Reich

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The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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When you get things right, good things happen.

Steve Easterbrook

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You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Steve Earle

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I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

Stuart Pearce

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It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

Ron Clements

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I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

Rupert Everett

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Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

Michael Shermer

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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

Lorrie Moore

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I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

Johnny Vegas

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I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.

Dolly Parton

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People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.

Dolores O'Riordan

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