James Wan Quotes
With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
Quotes to Explore
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams.
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You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
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We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
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With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
