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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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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Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
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Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.
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When you fell in the sea, you should have heard them cheer. I made them rope the yard and fish you up. I said a ducking in water washes the witch-skill out of a woman until next full moon, and it would be bad luck to let you drown. How about that for a clever story? They’d believe anything if you make it sound silly enough.
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If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
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I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
