Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
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The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.
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I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.
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Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.
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I never got a degree; I just started writing.
