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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My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.
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If we called it aioli, does that make it sexier? It's aioli. I called it Donkey Sauce because you have to make fun of it.
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A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.