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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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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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.
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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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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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I don't care if I don't act anymore.
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When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.
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I'm just going to go out and play. At the end of the day, you are still hitting a little white ball with your clubs.
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I love putting visuals to music. I feel like a lot of times it helps people contextualize that message or that experience.
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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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I work in the mornings almost exclusively.
