James Wan Quotes
'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.
James Wan
Quotes to Explore
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
Orlando Bloom
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
F. Lee Bailey
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Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
Canelo Alvarez
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
Octavia Spencer
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
Kara Swisher
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
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It is clear to me, as I consider the work laid out in the staff report, that many E-Rate program weaknesses must be addressed legislatively to avoid future waste and misuse.
Ed Whitfield
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I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.
Kabir Sehgal
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
Orson Welles
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Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?
Wallace Stegner
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'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.
James Wan
