William Peter Blatty Quotes
For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
Quotes to Explore
-
Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
-
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
-
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
-
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
-
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
-
Katie Holmes is really amazing.
-
Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
-
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
-
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
-
I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
-
I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
-
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
-
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
-
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
-
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
-
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
-
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
-
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
-
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.
-
Whenever I start an acting job and talk to my fellow actors, and I tell them I am from Nottingham, they guess I'm from the Workshop, it's so well known.
-
When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
-
Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be.
-
For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
