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.

William S. Burroughs

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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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Done
  • Thank God

• I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Creative
  • Most

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
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  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Done
  • Hear
  • Drummer

• The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • You
  • Creative
  • Pressure

• When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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  • Accountability

• 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.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Freedom

• Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Walter Pater
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  • Art
  • Help

• I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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  • Never
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• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Done
  • Deadline
  • Options

• I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

  

  James Garner
  • Work
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• I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • First
  • Transition

• Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • College
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• My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
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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.

  

  William S. Burroughs
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  • Creative
  • Heroin