James Wan Quotes

Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it.

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• I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

  

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• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

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• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  

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• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

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• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  

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• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

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• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

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• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

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• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

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• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

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• God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

  

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• In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.

  

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• Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

  

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• I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

  

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• The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

  

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• The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

  

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• Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

  

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• Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it.

  

  James Wan
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