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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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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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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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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Toast is bread made delicious and useful. Un-toasted bread is okay for children's sandwiches and sopping up barbecue sauce, but for pretty much all other uses, toast is better than bread. An exception is when the bread is fresh from the oven, piping hot, with butter melting all over it. Then it's fantastic, but I would argue that bread fresh out of the oven is a kind of toast. Because I'm an asshole and I refuse to be wrong about something.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Some people choose their style at the age of 14, but I changed mine all the time.
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I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'
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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.
