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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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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No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.
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You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
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As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
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I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.
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Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.
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It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning.
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Robert Bloch taught me about mixing horror and humor.
