Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

Joe R. Lansdale

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Author Biography

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

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I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics.

Andrew Tan

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Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

Andrew Weil

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My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.

Melanie Scrofano

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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Amy Tan

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I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.

Ambrose Burnside

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I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families - and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.

Michelle Obama

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I think people who read Internet blogs are usually trying to fit it in during a busy part of their day, and there's only so much information that you digest. Whereas an experience with a book is a little more comfortable, and I think people are a little more willing to really delve into information.

Mick Foley

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I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

Milos Zeman

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One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.

Courteney Cox

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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Cofer Black

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Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

William Kingdon Clifford

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The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.

Ryan Holiday

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