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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In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get almost no audience.
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You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
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It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
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I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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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.
