James Wan Quotes
I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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This place is phenomenal. The fans are right on top of the players. You feed off that adrenaline. I really think this environment is a vital part of what's happening here.
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All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.
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Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.
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Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again.
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If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'
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I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.
