James Wan Quotes
'The Conjuring' was a massive success, and honestly, it set the bar quite high. So I was nervous about making the sequel, and I wasn't sure if it will still have the same impact as the first one did. But that's what moved me to make the sequel.
Quotes to Explore
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.
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'The Conjuring' was a massive success, and honestly, it set the bar quite high. So I was nervous about making the sequel, and I wasn't sure if it will still have the same impact as the first one did. But that's what moved me to make the sequel.
