James Wan Quotes
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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It takes three to make a child.
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.
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So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.
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For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.
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I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.
