Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.Joe R. Lansdale
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Warren Farrell -
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
M. J. Hyland -
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
Malin Akerman -
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
Gabriel Mann -
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
Iain McGilchrist
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
Maluma -
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith -
So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
Aaron Ashmore -
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
Manuel Puig -
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
Tammy Blanchard
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
Garry Trudeau -
As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
Daniel Everett -
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden -
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
Nafisa Joseph -
Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
L'Wren Scott -
I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.
Warren G -
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.
Jeffrey Kluger -
I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'
Billie Eilish -
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant -
Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
Anton Zaslavski -
My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.
Joe R. Lansdale