James Wan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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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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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.
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Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
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However, few marriages, he understood, were lasting successes, so that perhaps after all it didn’t much matter.
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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
