James Wan Quotes
The thing that ultimately pushed me more towards 'Aquaman' is I love the possibility of creating a whole new world. I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
Quotes to Explore
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Being evil is easy.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
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A spiritual relationship to me is much more about making your own connection to the divinity that you believe in and much less about the person - the shepherd - who's overseeing it all.
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Memory for playing a musical piece... involves a process very much like that for music listening... through establishing standard schemas and expectation. In addition, musicians use chunking... tying information together into groups, and remembering the group as a whole rather than individual pieces.
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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The thing that ultimately pushed me more towards 'Aquaman' is I love the possibility of creating a whole new world. I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
