James Wan Quotes
If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.
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If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.
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The first thing that you lose on a diet is brain mass.
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It’s not about creating an equal country, but it is about stopping the development of an underclass cut off from the rest of society. This focus could be a straight forward set of things like a living wage, supporting more effective pathways into work and an effective benefits system.
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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
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If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.
