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 -
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 -
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
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
Garth Brooks -
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 -
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
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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.
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 -
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 -
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
Jack Dee
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The most important investment of our time is in our people and in our youth.
Nouman Ali Khan -
We wish we were doing it, of course, under much better circumstances, but this man was loved. For Chris.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
Edwin Louis Cole -
Not every model wants to be an actress.
Christy Turlington -
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
Abraham Lincoln -
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