James Wan Quotes
I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.
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I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
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One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views.
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How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?
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Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.
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Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
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When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'
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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
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I consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.
