James Wan Quotes
Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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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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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!
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Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?
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As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
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Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.
