E.L. James Quotes

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

You're just too poor to get rich.

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

The bad guys are the best parts.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

You never know what show is going to change your life.

There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced.

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I'm not really into the fashion thing.

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.