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Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Me Writing Remember First

Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

Progress Hand Scary Always Gone

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

Work Mind Writing Deep Doing You

First of all, you need to love yourself, 'cause that's the only way you're going to get by and be O.K. as an individual. But it's important to make other people feel loved because you never know what they're going through.

Love Yourself Love Yourself People

I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to.

Decision People Pretty Made Much

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

Change Community Sick Stand Up Stand

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

Joseph Pulitzer

Men Greatness Born Nation Most Owe

All I really have going is football. I don't know what I would do without it.

Football Know Without Going Would

'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.

Boots Say More Over Head Motown

As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.

Tennis Room Trophies Court Some Won

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Career Anything Center Both Olympics

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

Hero Job Story Think Epic Grand

Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

Love Business Service Day People

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