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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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Dan Jenkins
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry
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.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Salman Rushdie
I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics... I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off of each other.
Jason Isbell
One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
Bee Wilson
It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
T. H. White
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
