James Wan Quotes
I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I love to smile.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
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And this is what you get for laughing at me." He pulled her up a few inches until his lips touched hers.
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I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.
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I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.
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I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
