Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
Jack Kelley -
No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
Danica Patrick -
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Edmund Waller -
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
Sally Watson -
I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi -
I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
Inge de Bruijn
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
Kate Moss -
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
Pat Buchanan -
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth -
I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
Caitlin Kittredge -
I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
Maajid Nawaz -
A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
Edgar Wright
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
Kate Reardon -
January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
Dana Rohrabacher -
Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.
Mahershala Ali -
If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
Maelle Gavet -
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
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My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.
Margo Jefferson -
For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
Floyd Skloot -
I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
Betty White -
I would love to do more family comedy.
Jamie Bamber -
Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
Joe R. Lansdale