James Wan Quotes
It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.
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I like the challenges we face in the future. That motivates me.
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Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
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Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.
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It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.
