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.
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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.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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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.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
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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.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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.
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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.
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I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.
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I get a little itchy if I don't have some control.
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The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
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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.
