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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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
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I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.
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I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.
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Most companies overlook the most basic of all training functions: the onboarding of new employees into their corporate culture.
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Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.
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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.'
