James Wan Quotes
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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I'm excited to be home, not wear makeup, and wear onesies.
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I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?
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Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that .
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Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.
