Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.
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I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'
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There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
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I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.
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Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.
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I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
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As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.
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There comes a time when enough is enough. I have a duty to protect my three daughters. I need to know I've done all I can do.
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I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.
