Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'

Joe R. Lansdale

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• The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Time
  • Home
  • Road

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

  

  Raekwon
  • Problem
  • Successful
  • Cats

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Long
  • Information

• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goals

• First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Real
  • First
  • Name

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • History
  • Man
  • Winning

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Pretty

• When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Great
  • You
  • Product

• You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Death
  • Man
  • Hero

• He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.

  

  John Fusco
  • Connection
  • Italian

• Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

  

  Diego Luna
  • World
  • Mirror

• Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Dry

• There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • People
  • Life

• I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Gay
  • Door