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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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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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.
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My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
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From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.
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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."
