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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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 always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'
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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
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Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
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When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'
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Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.
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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.
