James Wan Quotes

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

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• We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Style
  • Forget
  • Heritage

• I grew up as a country boy.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Country
  • Boy

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Work
  • Book
  • Chef

• Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Water
  • For Him

• Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Boring

• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Person
  • Moment
  • Everything

• On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Art
  • Business

• Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Freedom
  • Religion
  • Thought

• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Death
  • Night

• We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • Better
  • Drawing

• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Liberty
  • Price

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Sick
  • Walk

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Work
  • Want
  • Know

• No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Doing
  • New
  • New York

• If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Long
  • War
  • Soul

• I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Believe
  • High
  • Religious

• Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

  

  Dogen
  • Enlightenment

• A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

  

  Joan Kirner
  • Women
  • Truth

• When I first moved to Vail, it was like I was a little celebrity. You know, everyone knew my accomplishments. I was a young, fast teenager and making waves in the ski world. And it was really cool.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • World
  • Cool
  • Celebrity

• There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

  

  James Wan
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