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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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"With the press there is no "off the record.""
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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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"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."
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"I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films."
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"We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going."
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"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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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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"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
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"The press is our chief ideological weapon."
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"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
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"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
Creativity
"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
Reading
"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
"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
Creativity
"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
"Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current."
Horror
"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
"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."
Press
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
Houses
"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
Faith
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