William S. Burroughs Quotes

Open your mind and let the pictures out

William S. Burroughs

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• Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Give

• I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Politics
  • Shy
  • Reserved

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Door
  • Sense
  • Walk

• I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Quality
  • Clear
  • Website

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • Story
  • Someone

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Why
  • High

• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Great
  • Understand
  • India

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Days
  • Once

• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

  

  Joaquin Andujar
  • Why
  • Bad

• Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Deals
  • Philosopher
  • Naive

• As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mind
  • Fight
  • Everything

• Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Lives

• Open your mind and let the pictures out

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Mind