James Wan Quotes
I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.

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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.
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I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
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I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.
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There may well be a time for military action.
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I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.