Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

John Burroughs

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I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

John Goodman

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When I was younger, acting, singing, and dancing was what it was all about.

Suki Waterhouse

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My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

Marvin Hamlisch

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I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.

Jason O'Mara

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'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.

Colson Whitehead

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There are a few directors as a young person where I was kind of like, 'Well, these are a sure bet.' The Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson.

Allison Tolman

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I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

Rick Perry

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If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

Lykke Li

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Leo Rosten

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I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.

Kimberly Willis Holt

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The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country.

Hugo Chavez

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