James Wan Quotes

'Saw' really was like a student film for me; we expected it to go straight to video. I never expected anyone to see that film, and then it becomes one of the most successful horror franchises.

James Wan

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• I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • True
  • Want
  • Potential

• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Speed
  • Quantity

• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.

  

  Rain
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Rainy

• Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

  

  Paige Davis
  • Best
  • New
  • New York

• I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Movies
  • Admire
  • Risks

• Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Day
  • Flame
  • Candle

• What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Live
  • Try

• We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Play
  • Plan

• Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Language
  • Concept
  • Specific

• I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.

  

  Weili Dai
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• The most important thing is to defend the euro.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Important
  • Most
  • Euro

• I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • People
  • Envy
  • Blame

• I love horses.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Horses

• The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• I don't know what my future is.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Future
  • Know

• China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • China
  • Cultural
  • Pillar

• People are more important than things.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Important

• Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Karma

• There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When you step on that field, you're a member, in my case, the 49ers. That's your job, your occupation.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • May
  • Job
  • Black

• 'Saw' really was like a student film for me; we expected it to go straight to video. I never expected anyone to see that film, and then it becomes one of the most successful horror franchises.

  

  James Wan