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There's none with me, although you've seen me before - I'm outrageous.
James Ellroy
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James Ellroy
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and bought the existing Kennedy theory books, most of which are outlandish. But what DeLillo posits - some rogue CIA guys - is the most dramatically sound, plausible explanation for it.
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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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Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
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The novel is final form it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.
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As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
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Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.
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L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.
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Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.
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I learn things late-and only the hard way.
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I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.
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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.
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