Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.Joe R. Lansdale
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
Zoe Saldana -
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Malachy McCourt -
I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
Harmony Korine -
Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
Nadine Velazquez -
My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
Taylor Swift -
If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
Maisie Williams
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
Sam Heughan -
Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
Garth Brooks -
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
Camryn Manheim -
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
Ice Cube -
It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
Karl Urban -
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
Irving Kirsch
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
Karan Mahajan -
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant -
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
Hanoi Hannah -
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
Edith Wharton -
When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
Wayne Rogers -
You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
Majel Barrett
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When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.
Dan Fogler -
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
Emmylou Harris -
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
Abhishek Bachchan -
My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
Franz Boas -
I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.
Dylan Moran -
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.
Joe R. Lansdale