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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."

"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."

"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."

"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."

"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."

"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
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"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."

"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
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