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"Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down."
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"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things."
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"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."
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"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
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"Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat."
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"Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down."
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"The press is our chief ideological weapon."
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"It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6."
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"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
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"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
Creativity
"Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down."
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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
Houses
"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
Reading
"And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence."
Truth
"I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies."
Movies
"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
Horror
"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
Faith
"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."
Movies
"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
Creativity
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