Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Know

• I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Best

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

  

  Young Buck
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Young

• I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Healthy

• I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Film
  • Everything

• As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Broken

• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Always

• I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Change
  • College
  • Perception

• I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Long

• My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Woman

• Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Price
  • Discrimination
  • Choosing

• When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • School
  • May
  • New

• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Perfume

• For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Me
  • Best
  • Partner

• Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Money
  • Why
  • Cleaning

• Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests Apple would have done. Or -- and this is far more plausible -- somehow the energy and excitement of the 10 million people who purchased iPhones has awakened their mind powers and caused the phones to bend.

  

  Uri Geller
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

  

  Philip Emeagwali
  • Nature

• It took me a month to get out of the mindset of O.J. But even now, still, I think it might have done something to my vocal chords. I went to see the doctor, and he was like, 'I don't see anything. You're fine.' But mentally, I might have broke a little bit.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • Done
  • Mindset

• The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Childhood

• I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
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