Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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I've always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
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In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
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None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.
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If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.
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It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.
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Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
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I write what I hear.
