Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
I've always felt that if you pay your bills and can take care of yourself without too much stress, then it's a pretty damn good life.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.
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When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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I've always felt that if you pay your bills and can take care of yourself without too much stress, then it's a pretty damn good life.
