How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. - James Ellroy

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Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

James Ellroy

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

Book, Books, Change, Changing My Life, Things, Writing

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I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

Genre, Remotely, Think, Thinking, Writing

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

Book, Books, Done, Think, Thinking, Trying

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L. A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

Came, Dark, History, Influence, Places, Thinking

My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.

Book, Guys, Moving, Sacrifice, Toward, Weak

I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

Classical, Culture, Hate, Like, Sports, Thinking

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Harold Wilson

[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.

Giving, Government, Place, Producing, Science, Training

J. G. Holland

We work and that is godlike.

Godlike, Work

George Osborne

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

Accountants, Employing, Needs, Rich, Simple, Simpler

Billy Corgan

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Chasing, Fighting, Government, Like, Men, Rocks

Gretchen Mol

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

Bettie, Feminist, Gave, People, Thinking