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James Ellroy Quotes

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Alone Focus Stress Hurt You

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

Myself Curious People Speak American

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

Life Myself Job I Am Shopping Think

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

Live Society Revenge Think Mad Gone

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Shirley Chisholm

Time Problem Meeting Congress Hold

Golf will grow so long as it's fun.

Fun Grow Golf Long Will

I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.

Work Future Doing More Excited

ISIS is the greatest threat.

Greatest Threat Greatest Threat

I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.

Art Responsibility Fight Cool Start

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

School High School You Know High

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

Great Priorities Place Try Right

You can't get work without working.

Work You Without Working Get

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

Time Theatre Bad First Time First

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