Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
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The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields;And, softly shaking on the dimpled poolPrelusive drops; let all their moisture flow,In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.
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Is power that-an emptiness?
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.
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Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk
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My fans have always been so supportive, and several years ago, I realized that I could thank them by naming all my characters after my Twitter and Facebook fans.
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I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.
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Robert Bloch taught me about mixing horror and humor.
