James Wan Quotes
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'James Wan
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
Ferdinand Christian Baur -
And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
Vanessa Williams -
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell -
I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
Mads Mikkelsen -
There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
R. J. Cutler -
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
Carl Wilson
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
Fidel Castro -
Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
Gavin MacLeod -
Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
Vikas Swarup -
Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
Samantha Power -
The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
Larry Cohen
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You never know what's going to happen. In a game where you're down by 20, you're still trying to win the game.
Zach LaVine -
I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
Manny Pacquiao -
I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
Ziggy Marley -
More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
Garry Kasparov -
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo -
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
Lata Mangeshkar -
During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.
Blake Griffin -
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
Leon Krier -
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.
Alexander Acosta -
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'
James Wan