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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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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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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Sometimes you just close your eyes and jump... you don't think too long or maybe you just won't. Sometimes you just follow your heart, don't analyze too long, or maybe it might just be gone.
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L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a strip mall, and go from one store to the next. I guarantee you will see a collision of cultures you never imagined.
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I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
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In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
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I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
