Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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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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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
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If a guy can play Guitar Hero with me and sit at home and watch the Food Network and read magazines with me, that's good. I don't think there are many guys that's fun for. It's a lot to ask.
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I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
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I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.
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Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.
