William S. Burroughs Quotes
I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.
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Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.
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It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
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Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.
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I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.
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I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.
