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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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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Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.
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Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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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.
