Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.
Joe R. Lansdale
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Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
Victor Garber
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Veterans are my life's work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I've woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans.
Tammy Duckworth
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Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new program or scheme is implemented, but always at the expense of the taxpayer. Small businesses invest in new businesses, which results in more jobs.
Ralph Norman
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I start out giving characters archetypes and parameters. Once I know the basics and have a rudimentary model, it's easier to carve unique curves and edges. It's quite easy to guess how a character is going to react if you know their background, and at a certain point, you realize you understand them personally.
Victoria Aveyard
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Walt Disney
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
Rand Paul
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
Lance Armstrong
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Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed 'the squirrel brain' are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.
Kate DiCamillo
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If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
Ted Nelson
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Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl.
Larry Wall
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You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
Charlie Sheen