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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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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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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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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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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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.
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Fighting was something inside of me that I didn't realize was there.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.
