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I like having little kids look at me. It's fun. They make these little faces.
Linda Blair
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All these years later, the world knows who I am, ... When it was first released, nobody understood who I was.
Linda Blair
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I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
Linda Blair
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I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.
Linda Blair
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For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?
Linda Blair
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If you know me, I don't live in this dismal world. I mean, I like to have fun. My friends are comedians.
Linda Blair
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I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal issues most important to me? Absolutely. I have an affinity with them, but I also care about children and the elderly and always say that the rest of everybody else can fend for themselves because we're in a age where we can. And we're all able to do so.
Linda Blair
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I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism. And so, that was my safety net. And I always say, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire a Catholic child, who may have heard about the devil, the things that were in the closet. And no one wanted to discuss them.
Linda Blair
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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.
Linda Blair
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Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.
Linda Blair
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They were very persistent. They didn't stop writing or calling.
Linda Blair
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Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.
Linda Blair
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Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.
Linda Blair
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We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do
Linda Blair
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Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I've been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore.
Linda Blair
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As all my friends said, 'Linda, enjoy this time.' It wasn't enjoyable the first time because they're were too many questions. But I think I've lived a solid life. You can look at who I've been, good, bad or indifferent.
Linda Blair
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I work more than people realize. It doesn't mean you always see the project. Look at how many stations we have. I did a couple films in Australia. I like the movies.
Linda Blair
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People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.
Linda Blair
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The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair
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I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that's a completely different world than in California where I think there's different dreams and aspirations of maybe being a so-called 'star' and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it's theater or commercials.
Linda Blair
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What we have to remember is that children matter as much as adults, but they aren't equal with adults.
Linda Blair
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I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.
Linda Blair
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The Amish do many other things that are good. Let them do that. Let the animals go.
Linda Blair
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It's hard to understand how people can walk away from their homes and assume that their animal will fend for itself. We are the providers - the ones who need to provide the warmth, the protection, the food, the water.
Linda Blair
