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"Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius."
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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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"When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for "The Exorcist" interview."

"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."

"To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it."

"There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others."

"If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important."

"The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."

"People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."

"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."
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