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Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Love Me More One Thing Than Thing

I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s.

Style Woman Kind Street Industrial

Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.

Face Political Born Same Share Who

Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.

Path King Me Back Never Teaching

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

Beautiful Mountain People Me Book

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Stephen Sondheim

Work Good You Fast Know Get

Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.

Night Enough Talk Real Own Big

Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the feminist movement, which is trying to rebrand public debate as harassment.

Milo Yiannopoulos

History Free Media Speech Trying

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

Television Years Ground Show Off Get

I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk.

Me Chance Risk Talk Honest Rap

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.

Father Parents DJ Find Australia

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

Cooking Painting Colors Writing Song

All religions have always hated females.

Peter Greenaway

Always Religions Hated All Religions

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