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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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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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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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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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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I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.
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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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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
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There is magic on earth.
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The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.
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When Michael Frere came to see Elizabeth about her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life she found him ‘such a boring little man. But it is because we are all growing old, and the bones of our inadequate minds come through the flesh that hid them.’ She hadn’t always found him boring, and Love, one of her best novels, is largely based on their romance.
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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
