James Wan Quotes
I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
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I like to have sleepovers.
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
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We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.
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I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
