James Wan Quotes
I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.
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The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
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Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
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I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.
