James Wan Quotes
With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.
Quotes to Explore
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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The world is too violent right now.
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All religions have been made by men.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.
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Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.
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The best way to be with your spirit is to forgive.
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I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.
