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's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a bit more difficult to get out there on your own and be an actor. It takes time.
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I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.
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Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
