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William S. Burroughs Quotes

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

William S. Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Control Giving Giving Up Special Way

As a kid, I was only allowed to watch a certain amount of television. But once I was old enough to own my own TV, I would stay up until 4:00 A.M. watching Home Shopping Network night after night. Soft-spoken women talked about the jewelry in very detailed, intricate, precious ways, and I loved it.

Home Women Shopping Night Jewelry

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Nature Mountain Bald Full Bare Tops

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

Anna Deavere Smith

Car Racism Wake Up Tragedy Want Up

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Myself Dialogue

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Work Best You Difficult Most

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

Learn Easy Difficult Master Very

I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I was auditioning to write for 'Letterman' or '70s-era Carson.

Sports Job Growing Up Writing Dream

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Power Relationships Understand

My father saw that there is no way we can stay in the G-20 and grow with this level of corruption. In early 2015, one of his first orders to his team was to collect all the information about corruption - at the top. This team worked for two years until they collected the most accurate information, and then they came up with about 200 names.

Mohammad bin Salman

Father Team Grow Corruption Early

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.

You Anything Forever Investigate

I feel like people have a lot of the same good times and the same interests pretty much anywhere.

Good People Good Times Feel Same

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

Domhnall Gleeson

Acting Complete Been Interested Fell

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