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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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
Kate Atkinson
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A race cannot be purified from without.
Anna Julia Cooper
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In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.
Jesse Ball
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People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.
Anthony Robbins
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In Britain I love spending time at the St. James's, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower on Cadogan Place, and the Mayfair Hotel. We've got some spectacular hotels tucked away in London, but because I live there, I don't get to spend as much time in them as I probably would like to.
Colin Salmon
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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
