Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 28, 1951

Topics

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As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

John Abizaid

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Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

John Dyer

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Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto.

Tristram Stuart

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I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets.

Robert Wilson

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It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Jason Schwartzman

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I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

Clint Black

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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anthony Powell

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A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

Prince Philip

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I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.

Phil Robertson

HateMistakesManPeopleMeWorry

I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

Tyson Fury

HateMenListenOldBeingOld Men

Old foxes want no tutors.

Thomas Fuller

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I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Liam Payne

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