James Wan Quotes
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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I just can't read music.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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Don Kayman was too good a scientist to confuse his hopes with observations. He would report what he found. But he knew what he wanted to find.
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I feel very fortunate to be in a position to where I can continue to make music and have people appreciate it.
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I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.
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People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
