William Peter Blatty Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
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What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.
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I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.
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The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.
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I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.
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I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.
