William Friedkin Quotes

I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

William Friedkin

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• I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Women
  • Career
  • Science

• Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Different
  • Hope
  • Feeling

• I didn't even know what a tour manager was, but I was the tour manager, booking agent, all that stuff for almost two years without knowing it. I wasn't overwhelmed, because I enjoyed doing it.

  

  Luke Combs
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  • Manager
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• At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

  

  DJ Khaled

• The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • Important

• Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Feeling
  • Missing
  • Wine

• Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

  

  Colin Angle
  • Up
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  • Age

• To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • Great

• I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Trying
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• When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

  

  Mark Sheppard
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • Music

• Sharpe's sword was lucky. There was a soldier's goddess and her name was Fate and she had liked the sword Harper made for Sharpe. The Kligenthal was stained with the blood of friends, with the torture of flayed priests, and the beautiful sword contained not luck, but evil.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
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• I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
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• She came in and enjoyed some success as a freshman and sophomore and then she got voted as a captain. She's been a tremendous leader, a solid performer and we're going to miss her bright smile every day.

  

  Jack Warner
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• I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • People
  • Think
  • Enjoyed

• If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Men
  • Women
  • Leaving

• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  

  William Osler
  • Silence
  • Accepting
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• If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.

  

  Kathy Calvin
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• I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.

  

  Calvin Ayre
  • Player
  • Choices
  • Basketball

• Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

  

  Nancy Mitford
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  • Warm

• I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

  

  William Friedkin
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  • Exorcist