Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Kids
  • Together

• I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Feel

• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Like
  • Jewelry

• One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • American
  • Always

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • World
  • Desire

• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Look

• But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Food

• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • True
  • New York

• When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Good
  • Money

• I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Work

• What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

  

  Kelly Brook
  • Perfect

• No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

  

  Jon Corzine
  • Poverty
  • Facts
  • Rich

• Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Blue