James Wan Quotes
'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
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I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I love science fiction.
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To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
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Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
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I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
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'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
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I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.
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Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
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As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.
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I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.
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I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.
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The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.
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'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
