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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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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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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I'll let the racket do the talking.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
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Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.
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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.
