Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.Joe R. Lansdale
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
Rahul Dravid -
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin -
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
Katey Sagal -
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid -
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
Samuel Gompers
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Walter Reisch -
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
M.I.A. -
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
Tea Leoni -
I just don't watch a lot of TV.
Patrick Wilson -
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
Ted Cruz -
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
Osman Rashid -
When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.
Jacob deGrom -
The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter -
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
Park Geun-hye -
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino
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If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
Emma Donoghue -
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Walter F. Ulmer -
I am a trained hypnotherapist, yes, but it's more like a guided meditation. Most of the people I take under struggle with stress in their lives and have unbalanced sleeping patterns, so what I do enables my patients to regain energy and peacefulness on a subconscious level which affects their conscious mind.
Tanit Phoenix -
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
Gaston Bachelard -
I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.
Joe R. Lansdale