James Wan Quotes

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

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• Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Church
  • Christian

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Story
  • Doing

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• Tel Aviv appeals to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Me
  • Appeals
  • Tel Aviv

• I don't see the point in working just to be working.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • See
  • Working
  • Point

• I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Want
  • Stubborn
  • Achieving

• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eating

• I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Need

• It is not only the people of Gaza that can't afford having a fourth war - all the world cannot afford this.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • People
  • World
  • War

• If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Stupid
  • I Can
  • Dollar

• You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • You
  • Thankful

• I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Great
  • Words

• I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • America
  • Dream
  • Man

• If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Time
  • Skills
  • Fitness

• A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • True
  • False

• Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Literature

• There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

  

  Alexander the Great

• The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on the heart of America. And standing here in the heartland of America, we say in one voice We will not give in to terrorists; We will not rest until they are found and defeated; We will win this struggle not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace; So help us God.

  

  Tom Harkin

• I know that timid breathing. Where Do I begin and end? And where, As I strum the thing, do I pick up That which momentously declares Itself not to be I and yet Must be. It could be nothing else.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up

• No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Single

• I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Song
  • Intention
  • Not Interested

• I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

  

  James Wan