William S. Burroughs Quotes

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

William S. Burroughs

• Desire
• Photography
• Obscene
• Sinister

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• Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

  

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• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

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• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

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• Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

  

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• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

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• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

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• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

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• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

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• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

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• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

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• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

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• Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

  

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• Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.

  

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• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

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• I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

  

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• I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

  

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• From this day forward, speak to yourself in a way that you would someone you care about.

  

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• There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Desire
  • Photography
  • Obscene