Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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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.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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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.
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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.'
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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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.
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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.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at some point would say, 'Everyone loves Ant & Dec!' From eight to 80.
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When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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I work in the mornings almost exclusively.
