Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
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I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.
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Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
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It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
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Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.
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The Question of sovereignty is often raised. I am one of those who believe that in a modern world one has to give up a great deal of sovereignty. I am prepared to give up sovereignty to the world, but not to a selected number of European countries. That is not giving up something for world security; it is giving something up to sectional interests.
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In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
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But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
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John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.
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As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
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The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.
