1950s Quote by James Ellroy Download Open image ““Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven”” — James Ellroy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1950s Crime Fearless Femme fatale Jazz Noir Red-scare Underestimate
“I didn't tell her about the free-for-alls on the school yard, muggings on the bus. A girl burned a cigarette hole in the back of another girl's shirt at nutrition right in front of me looking at me as if daring me to stop her. I saw a boy being threatened with a knife on the hallway outside my spanish… — Janet Fitch Copy Share
“Claire had the same sensation she got when she heard people rattle off travelers' rumors about a place she had actually been: the realization… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“Myrnin to Claire: "Claire, there are things to do." "Here, too, and I'm staying here, believe me." Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you." " Bob the spider? " "He looks at you like a mother, you know. I'm surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example… — Rachel Caine Copy Share
“Cause I'd rather spend one glorious lifetime with you, Claire Doyle, than an eternity with anyone else.” — K.L. Penington Copy Share Image
“It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Claire Fitzpatrick, an Australian content writer who proofread the novel for me. Thanks Claire.” — Srinu Pandranki Copy Share Image
“She missed Dona Maria Eugenia nearby, reminding her from time to time, "Hard work has never killed anyone, but cutting back some of your… — Debora G. De Farias Copy Share Image
“The feeling often comes over me that I am not at all remarkable; it is fun to plan a career, but in all probability… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“Fear and I played peek-a-boo - it always seemed to grab my balls and twist just when it felt like something inside me could… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
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… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop.” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.” “To what?”… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie… — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
“The 1950s witnessed especially rapid expansion of electronic and electrical firms, of tobacco, soft drink, and food-processing companies, and of the chemical, plastics, and… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in… — George Emil Palade Copy Share Image
What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Disneyland was one perfect answer. It provided, an almost sacred space where it is permissible and safe to let one's guard down, take a… — Leslie Le Mon Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker.… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do,… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
“It's not a real place, or a place that you can stay for long; it's a somewhere-over-the-rainbow archetype but rooted in genuine emotions. No… — Leslie Le Mon Copy Share Image
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