Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I can’t tell someone that their dreams are impossible.
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This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?
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In the long term, space resources could lead to a thriving new space economy and human expansion into the solar system.
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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
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It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
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I think there are some people for whom words are like food.
