William S. Burroughs Quotes
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
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American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.
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It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy when I heard I did win because I was in London at the time, and we were doing a festival out there, and my manager was like, 'You just won an ACM.' And I was like, 'How? It's so early!'
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I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
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Once you learn how to roller skate for 'Starlight Express,' it's a lifelong skill you have acquired.
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Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
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Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.
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When I read in US Weekly the other day that she was fifty-nine, ... I was like, 'whoa, dude, no way she's old enough to be my mother.' Being with somebody that old is like committing incest, only you're not related.
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
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Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
