William S. Burroughs Quotes
I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
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I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.
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I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.
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There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.
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I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."
