William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
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Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
