William S. Burroughs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
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I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.
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A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.
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All that they seem to say is 'nigger, nigger, nigger'.
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Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.
