William S. Burroughs Quotes

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

William S. Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MoneyWomanYouReactWayMatter

Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit.

Joe Grant

MeColorFindingSaidNothingGot

Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.

Jennifer Nettles

LoveChildhoodCollegeTelevision

Fame, you know, it's like a handgun - in the wrong hands, it's dangerous.

Matthew Morrison

HandsYouWrongDangerousKnowFame

As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

Amanda Harlech

WomenRememberNeedDoormat

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.

Tori Spelling

ChildrenOpinionYouPlaceGoWay

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

Rory Freedman

LifeTimeMyselfParentsCollegeMe

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

MyselfPeopleWallLostRealizeUp

Pachinko, like all gambling, is rigged. The house always wins. It's a central metaphor of life. It's rigged, but you keep playing.

Min Jin Lee

LifeGamblingYouHouseAlwaysKeep

I'm very accepting of how people live their lives.

LP

LivePeopleAcceptingHowVery

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Luc Ferrari

LifeSpringDevelopmentSoundOwn

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

Jon Watts

PeopleBuildingThinkComedyTension

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

Diego Luna

HistoryThinkLessonCinemaEmotions

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