Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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I do go to the gym five days a week.
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
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The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.
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We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes.
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Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'
