Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

Jill Greenberg

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I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

Megan Smith

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I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

Stephen Mangan

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I'm not making music for old people or young people.

Stromae

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I'm not up in the front office or anything; I just control what I can control: playin' ball and playin' the best I can play.

Rob Gronkowski

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My wife wants four kids, and obviously if we're having four kids, I need to make sure that the priority is family first.

Jason Day

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Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not 'privatize' religion and quarantine it from the public square.

Josh Hawley

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I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

Jonathan Shapiro

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I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.

Diego Luna

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My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight.

Dorothy Hamill

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The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

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However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chen Shui-bian

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