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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.
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One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
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Time and tide and hookers wait for no man.
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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.
