Linda Blair Quotes
One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.
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I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.
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Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.
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One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.
