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William S. Burroughs Quotes

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William S. Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

Topics

Learning Mind Relax Wait Learn You

Even as a child, you can recognise the innocence of Piglet or the strange adult qualities of Eeyore. You just know you are with friends and family.

Family Friends And Family Child You

I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.

Age Ride Me Mom Think Living

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

Character People Doing Talking You

When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.

Me Face Back Possible First See

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

Care Go Ask Everything Anything

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

Growth Live People Think Key Reach

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

Anna Deavere Smith

Green Color Los Angeles Person Said

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Down Go Now Want Write Hard

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Time Happy Brave Self Trying You

I'm a big sucker for chocolate, and I love beer, but I can't drink it because it goes straight to my face like the Michelin Man.

Love Man Beer Face Chocolate Drink

By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you?

Football Me You Sex Will Way

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

Day City Night Trees Forest Look

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