James Wan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
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I am a babe for a living.
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It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
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As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing it many times over.
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
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Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.
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I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.
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My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
