James Wan Quotes

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• The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Movie

• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • People
  • Dream
  • Football

• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Novels

• I love proving people wrong.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Proving

• People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • People
  • Responsibility

• The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • People
  • Pride
  • Leaving

• The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Tears
  • Smell

• People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Creation

• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • Experience

• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Art
  • You

• I reason that as long as I'm smiling 90 percent of the time, I can handle the setbacks that occur 10 percent of the time.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Time
  • Long

• In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Society
  • Peace

• Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • People

• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

  

  Alan Dundes
  • Children
  • Grandparents

• Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Communication
  • Bridge

• If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.

  

  James Wan
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