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As a kid, I sensed history goi...

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

As critical acclaim and respon...

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

Rock and rollers can get you t...

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

Raymond Chandler once wrote th...

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

I am a writer. I could not aff...

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

I am a master of fiction. I am...

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

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I begin by assembling notes on...

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

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All I want to do is make serio...

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

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It was easy not to think of my...

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

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I like to be alone so I can wr...

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.

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The wildest ride in modern cri...

The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.

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I am the most well-adjusted hu...

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

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America was never innocent. We...

America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.

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To me, there's nothing on eart...

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

She quoted a dead playwright a...

She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

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Our shared world is humanly un...

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

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Dead people belong to the live...

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

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Some men get the world, some m...

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

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I've created a narrative of th...

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

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I don't have a cellphone or a ...

I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and the power of Perfidia is that it's the result of complete immersion. I was there for the two years that it took me to write that book.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....