William Peter Blatty Quotes
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
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For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.
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We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
