William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
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I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
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I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.
