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
  • Real
  • 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
  • Persons
  • Ifs
  • Versions

• All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Men
  • Women
  • Leaving

• Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
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  • Fearful

• I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
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  • Remind
  • Old People

• I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Reality
  • Storytelling
  • Galaxy

• A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

  

  William Gibson
  • Mind
  • Computer
  • Complexity

• 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