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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I really don't have a guilty pleasure.
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In: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); in: 'Silence: lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, 4/SILENCE
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.
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You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.
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'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
