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

  • -- William Peter Blatty 威廉·彼得·布拉蒂

我先把书卖了。实际上是给平装本出版商的。我一无所有。我只是有个想法。

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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

表演是我一直想要的东西,但我从来没有注意到它可能真的会成功。你对自己想做什么有各种各样的想法——有一段时间,我想成为一名骑师——但这是一件大事。

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

新观念应该面对旧观念。我们必须以欧洲为例。人们为使欧洲成为今天的样子而奋斗。自由不是装在盘子里的东西。

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

我想通过这本书我想说的另一个信息是,无论你失败了多少次……我尝试过很多次,但都失败了,我从来没有想过我会走到这一步。

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

我想,为我自己写一本书,与为我的读者读这本书的经历非常相似。

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

没有一点证据支持生命是严肃的这一观点。

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

当它是一个想法的时候,所有的事情都是一个该死的好主意。