Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.
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In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away.
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Texas is as alien as Mars.
