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Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Single Some Novel Characters

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

Funny Love Good Music Great Man

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

Dog Bird Mind Eye Thought Way

Anytime you can be a part of something that hopefully tries to make a cultural contribution, I love the idea of that.

Love You Contribution Something Idea

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Life Love Marriage Wife Rest True

I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.

Focus Job Death People Fall Cards

I practice a lot.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Douglas MacArthur

First Call Recollection

When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.

Live Brother People World Slow Look

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Death Thinking Language New Way Old

To do stories that I love, scripts that I love, and work with people who are passionate about them and passionate about projects - whether that's on stage or television or film, that's the kind of environment I want to work in.

Work Love People Environment Kind

Growing up, we had folk records.

Growing Up Growing Up Records Folk

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

Myself Man I Am You Place Know

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