James Wan Quotes

I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.

James Wan

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• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Law
  • Rich

• 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.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Think
  • Car

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Space

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• 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?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Books
  • Reasons
  • Explain

• 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.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• 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.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Relationship

• It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Business
  • Pleasure
  • Temple

• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Gift
  • Greatest
  • Thyself

• Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Country
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • You
  • Doing
  • Ears

• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Intelligent

• 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.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Opinions
  • Serve

• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Education
  • Support

• How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.

  

  William Schutz
  • People
  • Decision
  • Criticism

• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Different
  • Death

• Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Action
  • Kings
  • Groups

• Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Work
  • Women
  • Establish

• I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.

  

  James Wan
  • Death
  • Action