James Wan Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
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I feel like a famous Indian Chief of the Fagowee nations, who led his tribe for 40 years in the desert amidst starvation, hunger, famine, strife, plague - finally staggered up to the top of this mountain, drug crazed, looked out and pounded his chest and said, 'Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?'
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I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
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I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.
