Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
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So far, everything I've worked on has been deeply connected to reality. I'm not constitutionally opposed to working on something completely fictional, either. It just happens that a lot of these stories have crossed my path in a way that makes them intriguing, but I'm up for anything that's intellectually engaging.
Andrew Jarecki -
I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.
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I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.
