Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
Val Kilmer
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre
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The pace of television is very different from film.
Octavia Spencer
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
Ingrid Newkirk
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
Caprice Bourret
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
Ted Yoho
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
Iain Duncan Smith
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
Malcolm Wallop
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
Zach Anner
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
Tamsin Egerton
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
Om Puri
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
Ram Charan
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith
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I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
Lena Dunham
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I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?
Douglas Coupland
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We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
Jeffrey Deitch
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
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I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.
Anya Taylor-Joy
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I work in the mornings almost exclusively.
Joe R. Lansdale