Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
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I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.
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There is no cure for prions. They are a protein-based disease that, among other things, targets and transforms your brain. The symptoms reveal themselves differently in each host, and you might go months or you might go years before you realize you're infected.
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I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
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Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.
