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.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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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.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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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.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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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.'
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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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.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.
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All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
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If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.
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It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.
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For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
