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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
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"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."
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"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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"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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"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
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"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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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."
Movies
"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
Faith
"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
"Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current."
Horror
"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
Creativity
"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
Creativity
"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 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 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
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